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“At the cinema, we do not think, we are thought,” wrote the 19-year-old critic and future filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard in 1950. This is how strongly Godard responded to the screen, his future canvas. And our eternal wonder.

The iconic “enfant terrible” of the French New Wave revolutionized popular cinema starting in 1960. A family statement gave assisted suicide, which is legal in Switzerland where the filmmaker resided, as the cause of his death.

Jean-Luc Godard, one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century and the father of the French New Wave, died peacefully at his home in Switzerland on Tuesday. He was 91 years old. His legal counsel later confirmed he died by assisted suicide.

New Wave film-maker who changed the course of cinema with À Bout de Souffle

French media say director Jean-Luc Godard, an icon of French New Wave film who revolutionized popular 1960s cinema, has died

The radical director of Breathless and Alphaville, and who was a key figure in the French Nouvelle Vague, has died

Hailed as a star of London’s swinging sixties art scene, Pauline Boty rubbed shoulders with Bob Dylan and Peter Blake before her death aged 28. Now a forthcoming film and a recent record-breaking sale suggests the tragic painter is finally getting the recognition she deserves