“You can go to film school just by watching your films”

The Franco-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, a figure of the New Wave who notably signed Breathless, died Tuesday, September 13 in Rolle, Switzerland, at the age of 91. He takes with him a page of the history of the seventh art.

>> Cinema: the emblematic director of the New Wave Jean-Luc Godard is dead

At La Fémis, a prestigious Parisian film school, which trains professionals in the audiovisual and cinema professions, students and teachers pay tribute to the brilliant provocateur.

“He’s kind of the ideal man, smiles a student. He is someone who has completely reinvented editing: very abrupt cuts, who keeps things that are not necessarily connectable on a theoretical level, but which in fact, on an emotional level, respond very well.

“I am very sad, slides Louisa, 23, editing student. He was the first director whose films I saw and who made me say that was what I wanted to do.” “He did everything. adds Nicolas Lasnibat, the director of studies at La Fémis. So you can go to film school just by watching Godard’s films.”