Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

Directing

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What makes a Jean-Luc Godard film a Jean-Luc Godard film

Across 11 films, they run much more ambiguity, much more strangeness and much more cerebral than films in general. Their films resemble each other more than chance would account for, though not unusually so.

ambiguity

strangeness

cerebral

existential weight

The line down the middle is the average film. A bar to the right means more of that reading than films in general, to the left less. Drawn from every film of theirs in the catalogue, not a selection.

Filmography of Jean-Luc Godard