Jean-Luc Godard was a celebrated French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and critic. He spent his formative years in Switzerland where his family moved when he was 4 years old. At the age of sixteen, he returned to Paris to continue his education but became fascinated with cinema, as a result of which, he failed his baccalaureate examination. Although he later entered the University of Paris to study ethnology, his fascination with cinema made him quit his studies. Thereafter, he began to spend his time watching films in different cine clubs and hanging out with other films buffs, with whom he later started the French New Wave film movement. Starting his career at nineteen as a film critic, he had to go through many ups and downs before he was able to make his first film, a documentary called, ‘Opération béton’. At thirty, he made his first feature film, ‘À bout de souffle’, which established him as a celebrated director. Thereafter, he continued to make both feature films and shorts, becoming a well-known name in the field of cinema.