Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022), the French-Swiss film director, was a critic for Cahiers du cinéma in his early years before becoming a central figure of the French New Wave. After May 1968, he turned to political cinema and then, with his wife Anne-Marie Miéville, to experiments in video and television. In the 1980s he returned to the mainstream film industry; in his late work — Histoire(s) du cinéma, In Praise of Love, The Image Book — he developed a distinctive form of the visual essay.
