“Nothing,” he mentioned. “If the academy likes to do it, allow them to do it.”
Jean-Luc Godard was born Dec. 3, 1930, in Paris, the second of 4 kids in an extravagantly rich Protestant household. His French-born father, Paul-Jean, was a outstanding doctor, and his mom, Odile Monod, was the daughter of a number one Swiss banker. Mr. Godard credited his dad and mom with instilling in him a love for literature, and he initially wished to be a novelist.
Paul-Jean Godard, who grew to become a Swiss citizen, opened a clinic in Nyon, Switzerland, and Jean-Luc spent his early childhood there, visiting his household’s estates on each the French and Swiss sides of Lake Geneva and remaining there till the tip of World Battle II.
After France was liberated, he returned to Paris as a teen to attend secondary faculty, the Lycée Buffon, then enrolled on the Sorbonne in 1949, intending to review ethnology. As a substitute he immersed himself in cinema, spending a lot of his time on the Cinémathèque Française, a nonprofit movie archive and screening room, and within the movie societies of the Latin Quarter.
It was on the Cinémathèque that he made the acquaintance of André Bazin, an influential movie critic and theorist, and of the opposite younger movie fans in his circle, together with Mr. Truffaut, Mr. Rohmer and Mr. Rivette. He started writing opinions for the journal La Gazette du Cinéma in 1952 below the pseudonym Hans Lucas, and later joined Mr. Truffaut, Mr. Rohmer and Mr. Rivette as a contributor to Cahiers du Cinema, which Bazin had based.