"Jean-Luc Godard had recourse to legal assistance in Switzerland for a voluntary departure as he was stricken with 'multiple invalidating illnesses', according to the medical report," his legal counsel Patrick Jeanneret said.
One of the last honours Jean-Luc Godard, who passed away at 91, received was the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) last year.
In India, the influence of Godard, the giant of French New Wave, has been immense. All the bubbliness and mechanised jerkiness of modern and shallow Bollywood owes a huge debt to him
Multiple French media outlets confirmed that they had learned the news of Jean-Luc Godard's death from his relatives on Tuesday.
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