MMonument of French cinema and co-founder of the New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard died on Tuesday at the age of 91. For his weekly column, Philippe Labro has chosen to pay tribute to him. “He revolutionized the cinema with in particular Breathless (1960)”, begins the writer. When it was released in 1960, Godard’s first feature film had the effect of a bomb and will forever remain in the history of the seventh art as one of the first films of the New Wave. The journalist is full of praise for the filmmaker: “Godard is a God. »
The first time that Philippe Labro met Jean-Luc Godard was when the latter was working on Male Female (1966). The two men then maintained a friendly relationship and discussed a lot, particularly on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, which the journalist had covered in 1963 for France-Evening. “Until the day he offered me to shoot in Made in USA “says Philippe Labro.
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But between them, there was also a media exchange that has become cult. On May 22, 1982 in the 1 p.m. newscast on Antenne 2 presented by Philippe Labro, Jean-Luc Godard attacks the journalistic treatment of the Falklands war. A sequence that has remained legendary. “Disruptor, debater, he loved skirmishes, fights, disputes”, explains the writer before concluding, taking up the words of François Truffaut: “Godard is fast like Rossellini, he is mischievous like Sacha Guitry, he is musical like Orson Welles, he is simple like Pagnol, he is deep like Ingmar Bergman, he is insolent like no one else. »