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Jean Luc Godard
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Godard was born in Paris to Swiss parents. His early intellectual development was shaped by his father's medical practice and his mother's connection to the Parisian bourgeoisie, leading to an intense focus on literature and intellectual pursuits. After attending the Lycée Montaigne, he studied ethnology at the Sorbonne, though his primary passion remained cinema.
In the early 1950s, Godard became deeply involved with the influential film journal Cahiers du Cinéma, where he was a prominent member of the "Band of the Left Bank" group alongside critics such as [François Truffaut](/entries/fr…