Franco-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard died on Tuesday at the age of 91. He embodied the New Wave movement. It has offered moviegoers around the world some of the most striking scenes of the 7th Art.
With his big glasses, his shaggy white hair and his cigarette in his mouth, he had a childish, mischievous smile. His often drawling and nasal voice will remain in the ears for a long time. But it is obviously images, those of his films, which will remain in the memories. Jean-Luc Godard the Master of the New Wave, died this morning in Switzerland, at the age of 91.
He leaves cult scenes: Jean Seberg selling the NY Herald Tribune on the Champs Elysées, Anna Karina jumping in the water to join Jean-Paul Belmondo, Brigitte Bardot asking Michel Piccoli if he liked her buttocks…
A filmography as immense as it is singular, sometimes provocative, often acclaimed, often decried as can be that of the immense artists who dare to overturn the table, experiment, and follow their own path. Freely…
Our guests :
- Antoine de Baecquefilm historian and critic, notably at Cahiers du Cinéma, specialist in the cinema of Jean-Luc Godard.
- Director Cyril Leuthy his film “Godard, Seul le Cinéma” was selected at the 79th Venice Film Festival in the “Venice Classics” category, an ARTE and 10point7 co-production.
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The actress Macha Meril tell on the microphone Baptist Anthony his meeting with Jean-Luc Godard and his memories of filming the film “A married woman”