Immediately after news of French New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard’s death broke on September 13, tributes started pouring in from world leaders, fellow filmmakers, artistes and cinephiles around the world, reports ‘Variety’.
The first off the block was French President Emmanuel Macron, who described Godard as “the most iconoclastic of New Wave filmmakers, who had invented a resolutely modern, intensely free art. We are losing a national treasure, a look of genius.”
Source: ‘Giant Of Cinema Who Ripped Up The Rule Book’: Tributes Pour In For Jean-Luc Godard