Godard

[ goh-dahrd, -dahr; French gaw-dar ]

noun

1. Ben·ja·min Louis Paul [bah, n, -zh, a, -, man, lwee pawl], 1849–95, French violinist and composer.
2. Jean-Luc [zhah, n, -, lyk], 1930–2022, French filmmaker.

Godard

/ ɡɔdar /

noun

1. GodardJean-Luc1930MFrenchFILMS AND TV: directorWRITING: writer Jean-Luc (ʒɑ̃lyk). born 1930, French film director and writer associated with the New Wave of the 1960s. His works include À bout de souffle (1960), Weekend (1967), Sauve qui peut (1980), Nouvelle Vague (1990), and Éloge de l'amour (2003)

Example Sentences

“We thought we were doing Godard,” Chase relates.

From Los Angeles Times

There is Godard the film lover turned film director, who had made a decisive break with his childhood and who, beginning with “Breathless” in 1960, rewrote the rules of cinematic storytelling.

From New York Times

The store is overrun by a mob of unusually lumpen bargain hunters, and the riot that ensues is a bloody doozy, coming off like an amalgam of George A. Romero and Jean-Luc Godard.

From New York Times

Thomson, the author of dozens of books including “The Biographical Dictionary of Film,” binges on “Ozark” and Godard but finds “L’Avventura” a drag.

From Los Angeles Times

Walking through the kibbutz, he saw bullet-laden bodies in the streets before coming to the place that used to be the home of his parents, Many Godard, 70, and Ayelet Godard, 60.

From Seattle Times