Iconic French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard dies: he resorted to euthanasia because he was 'tired of life'

The famous director Jean-Luc Godard, who died at 91, died voluntarily, thanks to euthanasia, which is officially allowed in Switzerland, reports Фокус.

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The director's decision was announced by his producers and his wife Anne-Marie Miéville. They confirmed that Jean-Luc Godard died "peacefully, in his home, surrounded by his loved ones."

In recent years, Godard lived as a recluse in the town of Role on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland.

“He wasn’t sick, he was just exhausted,” one of Godard’s relatives clarified when talking to reporters.

“So he decided to end it. It was his decision, and it was important for him that it became known,” said a source close to the deceased.

Jean-Luc Godard often discussed the topic of suicide. Film critic Jean-Luc Douin said in the film Jean-Luc Godard that the director was literally “fascinated by suicide.” He also said that during the filming of the film “A Woman is a Woman” in 1961, Godard quarreled with the actress and his lover Anna Karina and cut his wrists with a razor, which he carried with him in his wallet.

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During the Cannes Film Festival in 2014, talking with a journalist, the master said that he “does not strive to reach out for life with all his might.” “If I’m too sick, I don’t want to be carried in a stroller,” the director concluded.

Let us remind you that assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland. Providing the means to commit suicide is legal, provided that the act directly leading to death is carried out by the person wishing to die. The services of euthanasia organizations are also used by foreigners. It is a crime to “incite or assist suicide for personal gain.” There are several private euthanasia organizations in the country: Exit, Dignitas and Life Circle.

He was one of the founders of the French New Wave.

The French director became a destroyer of the foundations of cinema, a rebel and at the same time a real hero of his time.

It didn't take long for the director to make a real revolution. His feature debut, Breathless, starring young Jean-Paul Belmondo, delivered a slap in the face to the bourgeois establishment and made a good mockery of traditional cinema. Forbes. Although, at first glance, there was nothing special in this film. Breathless is a simple story inspired by American genre paintings. In the center of the plot is a rather unpleasant type, a crook who steals a car, kills a policeman and hides in Paris. There he falls in love with newspaper saleswoman Patricia (Jean Seberg), but this romance, like the life of a young narcissist and nihilist, has a tragic end.

Now Godard's debut looks like a regular classic film. The director's findings have long passed from the category of radical experiments into the category of familiar techniques that are used everywhere these days.

The 1960s, or the so-called "pre-revolutionary period" of Godard's work, account for his most striking and, probably, the most understandable works: "The Little Soldier" (1960), "A Woman is a Woman" (1961), "To Live Your Own Life (1962), Contempt (1963), Alphaville (1965), Mad Pierrot (1965), Male and Female (1966). Although Godard works in well-known genres, he refuses the usual three-act structure of the film, in connection with which his famous phrase is recalled: “A film must have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”

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However, in 1960, his long, uninterrupted scenes, shooting with a handheld camera, “jumping” editing, ignoring the fourth wall, a huge number of references to literature, art and cinema, along with an unusual for that era main character who absolutely did not try to please the audience, amazed . Godard, with one film, seemed to have brushed off a heavy burden of rules and traditions and allowed the younger generation to breathe deeply - even though his hero was dying on his last breath. The director himself survived and became the embodiment of the slogan of his film: "Live dangerously until the very end."

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