Jean Luc Godard – a pioneer with passion

13th Harmonic chartFilm director Jean-Luc Godard, giant of the French New Wave, has died at 91 “peacefully at home” in Switzerland of assisted suicide. Emmanuel Macron tweeted: “We’ve lost a national treasure, the eye of a genius”. Critic Peter Bradshaw called him ‘ a genius who tore up rule book without troubling to read it.’ His Nouvelle Vague movies of the late 1950s and 60s – Breathless, the Little Soldier, A Woman is a Woman – revolution