One of the most iconic figures of the French New Wave and one of the most influential directors. Jean-Luc Godard who died on Tuesday at the age of 91, left behind a legacy of more than 100 feature films, short films and documentaries.

As a young critic for the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s, Godard and others defied the rules of cinema. They then switched mediums to work behind the camera, as Godard did with his revolutionary first film and the 1960 French wave classic Breathless. By the end of 1960, the director created a series of remarkable films such as Woman is Woman (1961), Contempt (1963), Outsider Gang (1964), Alphaville (1965), Male Feminine (1966). ), “Two or three things I know about her.” (1967) and “The Weekend” (1967).

This was followed by projects such as 1972’s Tout Va Bien starring Jane Fonda, his 1987 version of King Lear, the avant-garde Goodbye to Language and The Image Book.

Below is a list of the popular director’s most significant films: a guide for those who have never seen his work.

This is the film that started the “revolution”. Jean-Paul Belmondo plays the French swindler Michel Poicart, while Jeanne Schiberg plays the American Patricia in Paris, with whom he had a past relationship. And while he is wanted, he will try to get Patricia to love him and leave with him.

Anna Karina, who was married to Godard from 1961 to 1967, had already worked with the director on A Woman Is a Woman and The Little Soldier, but Nana’s role in Living Her Life is a woman who leaves her family to continue acting career. and enters the harsh world of sex work. Then she will become the muse of the French New Wave.

In one of Godard’s most famous films, a disillusioned family man, Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmonto), leaves his wife and child and flees Paris with his former lover, Marianne Renois. These two tend to avoid those who pursue them. With “bright” and beautiful colors, this film is one of the most famous films of the French New Wave and remains in the list of the most classic films.

In The Name: Carmen (1983), which Godard co-wrote with his partner and collaborator Anne-Marie Mieville, he plays a director locked in a hospital while his niece tries to rob a bank, but somewhere out there the story will get another plot.

An 85-minute combination of disparate scenes and sounds, collected and organized according to a rhythmic and rhetorical logic that only the director can guess. A story in five chapters. This is The Book of Images, a 2018 film by Godard that mixes elements of documentary, drama and thriller.

According to the Los Angeles Times