‘We are losing a national treasure’: Tributes rain for Jean-Luc Godard

Holy monster of cinema, co-founder of the new wave film movement, A An honorary Oscar, two honorary Cesars, a Golden Bear and a Silver Bear in Berlin, a Golden Lion in Venice and a special Palme d’Or in 2018, Jean-Luc Godard died at the age of 91 after committing suicide. Authorized and supervised practice in Switzerland as Published by Liberation newspaper who announced his death this morning.

Since his death was announced, tributes have been paid to the director from Alain Delon to Brigitte Bardot through the Cannes Film Festival. Cinematheque of France where is British Film Institute.

“It was like appearing in French cinema. Then he became a master of it. Jean-Luc Godard, the most iconoclastic of the New Wave filmmakers, invented a resolutely modern, intensely free art. We are losing a national treasure, a face. A genius.” The President of the Republic commented on this on his Twitter page.

Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak logically divided the reaction to his death. “Jean-Luc Godard burned all the codes of cinema, swept the world with a wave of audacity, freedom and irreverence. He leaves us an unforgettable “image book”.

“Jean-Luc Godard left behind 100 films, including almost as many masterpieces in his 60-year career. But he said he didn’t make movies, he made cinema.” The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Techniques commented, publishing an excerpt from his speech when the filmmaker received his first honorary César in 1987, presented by Isabelle Huppert.

The Cannes Film Festival also salutes Godard’s memory, recalling that he was one of those who stopped the festival from taking place in May 1968 when student riots broke out. “I talk to you about solidarity with workers and students, and you talk to me about close-ups and surveillance footage. You are idiots.” At that time, he hit the film director.

“Jean-Luc Godard is the Picasso of cinema. With his intuitions and his flashes. He played with words, images and colors ahead of his time. He improvised with step-by-step films, an obscure and seductive world cinema orphan.” The former president of the Cannes Film Festival, Gilles Jacob, commented on this in a statement collected by AFP.

“We are losing a national treasure”

In terms of cinema talent, the comments are unanimous. to begin with Alain Delonwhich the director filmed in 1990 in the film Nouvelle Vague. “A page is turning in the history of cinema… Thank you, Jean-Luc, for the beautiful memories you have left us. Know that I will always be proud to have Nouvelle Vague in my filmography” The actor told AFP about it.

A moving message is also published by Bridget Bardot, who filmed Le Mépris with him; One of Martin Scorsese’s favorite movies. “And Godard created Abomination and breathlessly joined the world of last great star-makers” she wrote, attaching a photo of the two of them intertwined and from behind.

“Jean-Luc Godard understood the extent to which cinema could be used as an instrument of rebellion and revolution” recalled actress Macha Merrill at the microphone of France Interwhose film “The Married Woman” in 1964 launched his career.

Although he may have long succumbed to the sirens of Hollywood and lived in Los Angeles, Antonio Banderas never forgets European cinema and thanked the director. “Expand the boundaries of cinema”.

In his spare time, the great actor and director Stephen Fry paid tribute to him, recalling that 15 days ago he saw his film A bout de souffle, starring the duo for eternity, Jean-Paul Belmondo and John Seberg.

Edgar Wright, still very much a cinephile and die-hard fan of the physical medium of movies, also chimed in. “RIP Jean-Luc Godard, one of the most influential iconoclastic filmmakers ever. It was ironic that he himself worshiped the Hollywood studio film system, as perhaps no other director inspired so many people to pick up their cameras and start shooting…”