Swiss news agency ATS quoted Godard’s partner, Anne-Marie Mieville, and her producers as saying he died peacefully and surrounded by his loved ones at his home in the Swiss town of Rolle, on Lake Geneva, on Tuesday.
Jean-Luc Godard stood for years as one of the most vital and provocative directors in Europe and beyond beginning in 1960 with his debut feature “Breathless.”
Jean-Luc Godard, the ingenious enfant terrible of the French New Wave who revolutionized popular cinema in 1960 with his first big endeavour, Breathless, and stood for years as one of the world s most vital and provocative directors, has died. He was 91.