5x Jean-Luc Godard at De Balie

This summer, De Balie brings Jean-Luc Godard’s films back to the big screen. Five classics from one of the greatest innovators in cinema. From July 18th at De Balie!

“A film should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. But not necessarily in that order,” is Godard’s most famous film wisdom. As the leading figure of the nouvelle vague, Godard created an entirely new film language from the 1960s onwards that would profoundly change cinema. Famous are the jump cuts Godard experimented with in his energetic debut film A bout de souffle (1960), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as a fugitive car thief. Also widely praised are the iconic images from the beautiful Le Mépris (1963) with Brigitte Bardot. Throughout a career spanning more than sixty years, Godard continuously pushed the boundaries of cinema. Martin Scorsese, Wong Kar Wai, Quentin Tarantino: all are influenced by Godard.

More about Godard:
Jean-Luc Godard was born in 1930 in Paris. He began his career as a film critic. Along with contemporaries like François Truffaut and Éric Rohmer, Godard wrote for the influential film magazine Les Cahiers du cinéma. In 1960, the Frenchman made his debut with A bout de souffle, ushering in the era of the nouvelle vague. This film movement turned the film world upside down with its playful and innovative use of film conventions. Throughout his career, experiment remained the guiding principle for Godard. He passed away in 2002 in his hometown in Switzerland.

Buy tickets via the following links:
Alphaville: https://debalie.nl/cinema/alphaville/
À bout de souffle: https://debalie.nl/cinema/a-bout-de-souffle/
Le Mépris: https://debalie.nl/cinema/le-mepris/
Pierrot le Fou: https://debalie.nl/cinema/pierrot-le-fou/
Une femme est une femme: https://debalie.nl/cinema/une-femme-est-une-femme/

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