Godfather Of The French New Wave Jean-Luc Godard To Be Immortalised In New Biopic

2012 saw the legendary master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock's efforts to bring Psycho to the silver screen immortalised in the movie Hitchcock; now another master filmmaker is set to get the biopic treatment.

The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius has begun pre-production on his movie about French maverick filmmaker and enfant terrible Jean-Luc Godard, Redoubtable.

Adapted from the autobiography Un An Après by Anne Wiazemsky, Redoubtable will tell the love story between Wiazemsky and Godard, taking place between the shooting of his 1967 film La Chinoise (perhaps the quintessential film from Godard's "revolutionary period") and the end of the decade.

Louis Garrel heads the cast as Godard, with the director's muse - and future wife - to be played by High Rise's Stacy Martin. While the film will poke fun at the New Wave movement (something which comedians have been doing well for many years), the filmmakers intend it to be a light-hearted, affectionate look at one of French cinema's most contrarian filmmakers, drawing stylistically from the Godard's films made around this period of his life.

Wild Bunch are heading the production, with sales chief Vincent Maraval describing the film to Screen Daily as "an homage to Godard and the films he was making in 1968 at the same time as gently poking fun at some of their characteristics, such as the slogans etc."

Redoubtable will be Michel Hazanavicius's seventh feature, following on from his disappointing 2014 movie The Search, which failed to wow critics and was a commercial flop.