Macron for Jean-Luc Godard: “The country has lost a national treasure”

France has lost a “national treasure” with the death of film director Jean-Luc Godard, the “godfather” of the “nouvelle vague”, the “new wave” in French cinema, French President Emmanuel Macron said today, commenting on the news of his death of the famous French filmmaker.

“Jean-Luc Godard was the most iconoclastic of the New Wave filmmakers (…). We have lost a national treasure (…), Macron wrote on Twitter.

Ce fut comme une apparition dans le cinéma français. Puis il en devint un maître. Jean-Luc Godard, le plus iconoclast des cinéastes de la Nouvelle Vague, avait inventé un art résolument moderne, intensely libre. Nous perdons un trésor national, un regard de génie. pic.twitter.com/bQneeqp8on

— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) September 13, 2022

Film director Jean-Luc Godard, the “godfather” of the French “Nouvelle Vague” died today at the age of 91.

“Jean-Luc Godard died peacefully in his residence among his close people. He will be cremated,” his family said in a brief statement released to AFP.

Godard was among the world’s most accomplished directors, known for such classics as Breathless and Contempt, which pushed cinematic boundaries and inspired iconoclastic filmmakers after his career peaked in the 1960s. His films broke with the established conventions of French cinema in the 1960s and helped to give impetus to a new way of filming, with the hand-held camera, the use of the jump cut technique and existential dialogues.

Godard was born into a wealthy Franco-Swiss family on December 3, 1930 in the luxurious seventh arrondissement of Paris. His father was a doctor, his mother the daughter of the Swiss who founded the Paribas bank, then a prominent investment bank.

Godard was one of the most prolific of his colleagues, making dozens of short and feature films over half a century from the late 1950s. “Sometimes reality is very complicated. The stories give her form,” he said.

Most influential and commercially successful films came in the 1960s including Live Her Life, Mad Pierrot, Two or Three Things I Know About Her and The Weeknd.

He turned to directing more political films in the 1970s before returning to a more commercial mainstream. His recent films, however — including 2014’s Farewell to Language and 2018’s The Picture Book — have been more experimental.

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