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== Personal life and death == Godard was married to two of his leading women: [[Anna Karina]] (1961–1965)<ref name=":1">{{cite news |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/anna-karina-jean-luc-godard-films-marriage |title=Anna Karina on Loving and Working With Jean-Luc Godard |last=Garcia |first=Patricia |date=10 May 2016 |work=Vogue |access-date=9 October 2017 |archive-date=25 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125061440/https://www.vogue.com/article/anna-karina-jean-luc-godard-films-marriage |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Anne Wiazemsky]] (1967–1979).<ref name="Wiazemsky">{{cite news |last=Roberts |first=Sam |date=5 October 2017 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/obituaries/anne-wiazemsky-french-film-star-and-novelist-dies-at-70.html |title=Anne Wiazemsky, Film Star, Wife of Godard and Author, Dies at 70 |work=The New York Times |access-date=10 October 2017 |archive-date=9 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009195754/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/obituaries/anne-wiazemsky-french-film-star-and-novelist-dies-at-70.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Beginning in 1970, he collaborated personally and professionally with [[Anne-Marie Miéville]]. Godard lived with Miéville in [[Rolle]], Switzerland, from 1978 onwards,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/redoubtable-jean-luc-godard-michel-hazanavicius-stacy-martin-artist-image-book-a8341081.html |title='A lot of people hate Jean-Luc Godard': 'The Artist' director Michel Hazanavicius on making 'Redoubtable' |date=8 May 2018 |work=[[The Independent]] |access-date=4 November 2019 |archive-date=4 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191104191035/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/redoubtable-jean-luc-godard-michel-hazanavicius-stacy-martin-artist-image-book-a8341081.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and was described by his former wife Karina as a "recluse".<ref name=":2">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/21/anna-karina-on-love-cinema-and-being-jean-luc-godards-muse-i-didnt-want-to-be-alive-anymore |title=Anna Karina on love, cinema and being Jean-Luc Godard's muse: 'I didn't want to be alive any more' |date=21 January 2016 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=4 November 2019 |archive-date=10 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200210202926/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/21/anna-karina-on-love-cinema-and-being-jean-luc-godards-muse-i-didnt-want-to-be-alive-anymore |url-status=live }}</ref> Godard married Miéville in the 2010s, according to Patrick Jeanneret, an adviser to Godard.<ref name=WaPo2022-09-13>{{cite news |last1=Bernstein |first1=Adam |title=Jean-Luc Godard, rule-breaking master of French cinema, dies at 91 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/09/13/jean-luc-godard-french-new-wave-dies/ |access-date=21 September 2022 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=13 September 2022 |quote=His legal and tax adviser, Patrick Jeanneret, confirmed the cause was assisted suicide and said a recent medical report indicated Mr. Godard had what he termed "multiple invalidating pathologies." ... Since the early 1970s, he had been the companion and collaborator of the Swiss filmmaker Anne-Marie Miéville, his only immediate survivor. They married about 10 years ago, Jeanneret said. |archive-date=3 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203023256/https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/09/13/jean-luc-godard-french-new-wave-dies/ |url-status=live }}</ref> His relationship with Karina in particular produced some of his most critically acclaimed films,<ref name="The Independent-2016">{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/jean-luc-godards-muse-anna-karina-on-why-she-refused-to-star-in-breatless-a6869871.html |title=Jean Luc Godard's muse Anna Karina on why she refused to star in 'Breatless' |date=12 February 2016 |work=The Independent |access-date=13 January 2018 |archive-date=21 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821111840/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/jean-luc-godards-muse-anna-karina-on-why-she-refused-to-star-in-breatless-a6869871.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and their relationship was widely publicised: ''[[The Independent]]'' described them as "one of the most celebrated pairings of the 1960s".<ref name="The Independent-2016" /> ''[[Filmmaker (magazine)|Filmmaker]]'' magazine called their collaborations "arguably the most influential body of work in the history of cinema."<ref name="Zahedi"/> According to Karina, their relationship was tumultuous and Godard was abusive to her.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Brooks |first=Xan |date=21 January 2016 |title=Anna Karina on love, cinema and being Jean-Luc Godard's muse: 'I didn't want to be alive any more' |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/21/anna-karina-on-love-cinema-and-being-jean-luc-godards-muse-i-didnt-want-to-be-alive-anymore |access-date=7 April 2023 |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=10 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200210202926/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/21/anna-karina-on-love-cinema-and-being-jean-luc-godards-muse-i-didnt-want-to-be-alive-anymore |url-status=live }}</ref> Later in life, Karina said they no longer spoke to each other.<ref name=":2" /> Through his father,{{sfn|MacCabe|2005|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=9KqfAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA39 p. 39]}} he was the cousin of [[Pedro Pablo Kuczynski]], former [[President of Peru]].<ref>{{cite magazine|date=10 June 2016|title=A Surprising Coalition Brings A New Leader To Peru|url=http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-surprising-coalition-brings-a-new-leader-to-peru|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|access-date=28 July 2017|archive-date=19 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119121714/https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-surprising-coalition-brings-a-new-leader-to-peru|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2017, [[Michel Hazanavicius]] directed a film about Godard, ''[[Redoubtable (film)|Redoubtable]]'', based on the memoir ''One Year After'' ({{Langx|fr|link=no|Un an après}}; 2015) by Wiazemsky.<ref name="Wiazemsky" /> It centers on his life in the late 1960s, when he and Wiazemsky made films together. The film premiered at the [[Cannes Film Festival]] in 2017.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-godard-movie-redoubtable-20170528-story.html |title=Cannes 2017: New movie about Jean-Luc Godard, from 'The Artist' director, shows auteurs can be funny too |last=Zeitchik |first=Steven |date=28 May 2017 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=9 October 2017 |archive-date=10 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010004755/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-godard-movie-redoubtable-20170528-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Godard said that the film was a "stupid, stupid idea".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Horton |first1=Perry |title=Godard on Godard Biopic: 'Stupid, Stupid Idea.' But the Show Goes On |url=https://filmschoolrejects.com/godard-on-godard-biopic-stupid-stupid-idea-but-the-show-goes-on-e4d1fa35f5bc/ |website=Film School Rejects |date=29 March 2017 |publisher=FilmSchoolRejects |access-date=16 April 2018 |archive-date=17 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180417023008/https://filmschoolrejects.com/godard-on-godard-biopic-stupid-stupid-idea-but-the-show-goes-on-e4d1fa35f5bc/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Agnes Varda]]'s 2017 documentary ''[[Faces Places (film)|Faces Places]]'' culminates with Varda and co-director [[JR (artist)|JR]] knocking on Godard's front door in Rolle for an interview. Godard agreed to the meeting but he "stands them up".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2019/09/agnes-varda-daughter-rosalie-interview-1202171080/ |last=Kohn |first=Eric |title=Agnès Varda's Daughter on Her Mother's Death and the Future of Her Archive |publisher=Indiewire |date=5 September 2019 |access-date=26 September 2022 |archive-date=26 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926071643/https://www.indiewire.com/2019/09/agnes-varda-daughter-rosalie-interview-1202171080/ |url-status=live }}</ref> His nephew and assistant {{ill|Paul Grivas|qid=Q112504828|short=yes}} directed the 2018 documentary ''[[Film Catastrophe]]'', which included behind-the-scenes footage, shot on the ''[[Costa Concordia]]'' cruise ship by Grivas during the making of ''Film Socialism'', of Godard working with actors and directing the film.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/film-catastrophe-the-making-of-a-godard-film-that-anticipated-a-real-life-disaster |last=Brody |first=Richard |title="Film Catastrophe": The Making of a Godard Film that Anticipated a Real-Life Disaster |magazine=The New Yorker |date=19 April 2019 |access-date=13 October 2022 |archive-date=14 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014050449/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/film-catastrophe-the-making-of-a-godard-film-that-anticipated-a-real-life-disaster |url-status=live }}</ref> Godard participated in the 2022 documentary ''{{ill|See You Friday, Robinson|fr|À vendredi, Robinson}}''. Director [[Mitra Farahani]] initiated an email exchange between Godard and Iranian filmmaker [[Ebrahim Golestan]], with emailed text letters from Golestan and "videos, images, and aphorism" responses from Godard.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://variety.com/2021/film/news/jean-luc-godard-documentary-ebrahim-golestan-iran-1235034242/ |last=Vivarelli |first=Nick |title=Jean-Luc Godard Non-Conventional Documentary 'See You Friday Robinson' Set For Festival Circuit (EXCLUSIVE) |work=Variety |date=5 August 2021 |access-date=25 September 2022 |archive-date=26 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926071643/https://variety.com/2021/film/news/jean-luc-godard-documentary-ebrahim-golestan-iran-1235034242/ |url-status=live }}</ref> At the age of 91, Godard died on 13 September 2022, at his home in Rolle. His death was reported as an [[Euthanasia in Switzerland|assisted suicide procedure]], which is legal in Switzerland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jean-Luc Godard a eu recours au suicide assisté: "Il n'était pas malade, il était simplement épuisé" |trans-title=Jean-Luc Godard resorted to assisted suicide: "He was not sick, he was simply exhausted" |url=https://www.liberation.fr/culture/jean-luc-godard-est-mort-20220913_LLEGXZFQSFDC3FBJCP7AWXSYWI/ |access-date=13 September 2022 |website=Libération |language=fr |archive-date=13 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913120750/https://www.liberation.fr/culture/jean-luc-godard-est-mort-20220913_LLEGXZFQSFDC3FBJCP7AWXSYWI/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Pulver |first1=Andrew |title=Jean-Luc Godard, giant of the French new wave, dies at 91 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/13/jean-luc-godard-giant-of-the-french-new-wave-dies-at-91 |work=The Guardian |date=13 September 2022 |language=en |access-date=13 September 2022 |archive-date=13 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913083625/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/13/jean-luc-godard-giant-of-the-french-new-wave-dies-at-91 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/le-cin%C3%A9aste-jean-luc-godard-est-d%C3%A9c%C3%A9d%C3%A9-%C3%A0-l-%C3%A2ge-de-91-ans/47896180 | title=Le cinéaste Jean-Luc Godard est décédé à l'âge de 91 ans |trans-title=Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard dies aged 91 | publisher=Swissinfo | date=13 September 2022 | access-date=13 September 2022 | archive-date=13 September 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913094913/https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/le-cin%C3%A9aste-jean-luc-godard-est-d%C3%A9c%C3%A9d%C3%A9-%C3%A0-l-%C3%A2ge-de-91-ans/47896180 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://apnews.com/article/jean-luc-godard-dead-ab2fc0cb0e83666334720f0fd392fcd0 | title=Iconic French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard dead at 91 | work=[[Associated Press News]] | date=13 September 2022 | access-date=14 September 2022 | archive-date=14 September 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220914222901/https://apnews.com/article/jean-luc-godard-dead-ab2fc0cb0e83666334720f0fd392fcd0 | url-status=live }}</ref> Godard's legal advisor said that he had "multiple disabling pathologies",<ref name=NYTObit/> but a family member said that "He was not sick, he was simply exhausted".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2022/09/jean-luc-godard-tributes-1234762242/ |last=Bergeson |first=Samantha |title=Hollywood Remembers Jean-Luc Godard: Filmmakers Pay Tribute to New Wave Iconoclast |publisher=Indiewire |date=15 September 2022 |access-date=24 September 2022 |archive-date=23 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220923231945/https://www.indiewire.com/2022/09/jean-luc-godard-tributes-1234762242/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Miéville was by his side when he died. His body was cremated and there was no funeral service.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/article/2022/09/13/jean-luc-godard-died-by-assisted-suicide-confirms-legal-advisor_5996811_30.html |title=Jean-Luc Godard died by assisted suicide, legal adviser confirms |publisher=La Monde |date=13 September 2022 |access-date=25 September 2022 |archive-date=26 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926064356/https://www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/article/2022/09/13/jean-luc-godard-died-by-assisted-suicide-confirms-legal-advisor_5996811_30.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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