The movement of "yellow vests" inspired French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, who claims to be able to make a film to tell "the state of this country, France," he said in an interview with the Swiss public TV RTS to be broadcast Sunday.
"A film that tells the state of France". The filmmaker of the New Wave, who rarely speaks to the media, received at his home in Rolle, on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, the star presenter of public television, who asked him if he could make a film on the "yellow vests". "A film that tells the state of this country, France, or certain aspects of this country.That, yes," he told him, seated in his kitchen, a cigar in his hand, according to excerpts broadcast by RTS.
Asked about what strikes him in today's France, Jean-Luc Godard responded in his own evasive way, evoking the image of "a very small, very pretty girl" whom he recently saw on the train to walk in the street while she was going to school "a good step" but with a T-Shirt on which was written "Panic".
A tribute to Agnès Varda. A terrible child of the 7th Art, venerated or hated, 88-year-old Jean-Luc Godard has long been a legendary leader in the New Wave, which revolutionized the history of cinema, with films like Breathless ( 1959) and Le Mépris (1963). Asked about the recent death of Agnès Varda, another world figure of the 7th Art and pioneer of the French New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard said he felt "sympathy, a lot" for him. "It was original," he said.
In one of her latest films, Faces, Villages, made with the artist JR, Agnès Varda traveled to Rolle to visit Jean-Luc Godard but she found the door closed, disappointed. "When Agnès Varda died a few days ago," said Godard, "I thought: the real New Wave, there are only two ... Me and (...) Jacques Rozier who started a little before me", he said.