The Cannes Film Festival posthumously honors Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard in 1968 when he traveled to England and shot the Rolling Stones for his feature film One plus one. The Times / News Licensing / ABACA

Cannes paid tribute to the French-Swiss director, who died last September, by screening a documentary about him on Sunday 21 May, followed by a short film showcasing his latest project.

Jean-Luc Godard, who died in September and was never crowned on the Croisette, deserved a sort of "posthumous celebration" at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday with a screening of a documentary about the Swiss director and his latest project. "The halls are full. "That is to say, the second or thousandth life of Jean-Luc Godard now begins with the remaining films," the festival's general delegate, Thierry Frémaux, told an audience that included directors Jim Jarmusch and Wang Bing (competing this year on his documentary ). "Youth") or actress Salma Hayek.

In Florence Platharets' "Godard for Godard" review - without voiceover - the life of the New Wave agitator filmmaker, who disappeared at the age of 91 while using euthanasia, which is legal in Switzerland. A chance to see, via partially unreleased footage, how he made his first feature film, the truly groundbreaking Breathless. But his return to the Croisette in May 1968 also took place in a scene that received a standing ovation from the audience present. While France was rocked by social unrest, Godard led a revolt of directors that ultimately resulted in the film being cut prematurely. Cannes Film Festival.

Another unforgettable moment for the director at Cannes, where he won the Jury Prize in 2014 and the special Palme d'Or in 2018: when he came to the screening of the feature film "Detective" in 1985, he got a cream cake in the face. This portrait is followed by a short film featuring Jean-Luc Godard's latest work entitled Trailer for a film that could never exist: "fake war". It was an adaptation of Belgian author Charles Plisnier's 1937 Goncourt-winning novel Wrong Passport, which revived a collage of a series of pictures and words with a small video clip. This collection of short stories follows various characters between the October Revolution of 1917 and Russia and the 1930s.