movement that revolutionized phil, making a year off to breathless, got our married danish actress anna carina. she became as muse and start in 7 of his films. to her stickly, but it was his 1963 film contempt starring brigitte bardot that brought him public acclaim, intense, provocative, and melancholy. it still widely considered. one of his best movies would have been . god, i was born in 1930 in paris to wealthy french swiss family as a young man, he flourished in the intellectual bohemian atmosphere, the city post war, and met fellow future new wave directors, including foss, what awful. over the next 5 decades, he made more than a 100 films. some were regarded as to experimental hall to political, but few people contested his status as one of cinemas most important figures. beverly paying tribute to godaddy. frances president called him an iconoclast and said, we have lost a national treasure, a geniuses, i got our died at his home in switzerland, age 91. he'll be remembered as an artist and a disruptor who once said the cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. natasha butler, al