Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic, has passed away at the age of 91.
He was ranked third in the critics’ top ten directors of all time and is said to have “created one of the largest bodies of critical analysis of any filmmaker since the mid-twentieth century.
This article will focus on one of two women he has been married to who coincidentally are leading women in several of his films.
Who was Anne Wiazemsky? Meet Jean-Luc Godard’s second wife
His second marriage was to, French actress and novelist, Anne Wiazemsky.
Wiazemsky was born to Yvan Wiazemsky and Claire Mauriac. Her father was a French diplomat, who was a Russian prince who had emigrated to France and her mother was the daughter of François Mauriac, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
She made her on-screen acting debut at the age of 18, playing Marie, the lead character in Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar. During the movie’s filming. Bresson proposed to her several times, though she refused.
She married Jean-Luc Godard in 1967. The marriage officially ended in divorce in 1979, even though they had separated in 1970.
On October 5, 2017, at the age of 70, she died of breast cancer.
