Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Franco-Swiss director and New Wave linchpin Jean-Luc Godard, who revolutionized world cinema with his ground-breaking debut, “Breathless,” and never stopped pushing the envelope of his creativity, has died.
He was 91. The news was first reported in Liberation. Although there hasn’t been an official confirmation at midday in Paris, French president Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to Godard on social media with a message describing Godard as “the most iconoclastic of New Wave filmmakers, had invented a resolutely modern, intensely free art.
We are losing a national treasure, a look of genius.” Ce fut comme une apparition dans le cinéma français. Puis il en devint un maître.
Jean-Luc Godard, le plus iconoclaste des cinéastes de la Nouvelle Vague, avait inventé un art résolument moderne, intensément libre.
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