As a tribute to the legendary French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic Jean-Luc Godard, the 53rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will be having a special screening of few of the films created by this master film maker who passed away on September 13 this year.
IFFI will be celebrating the French cinema, with France been made the focus country. Godard is a defining personality of French cinema, as he rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s.
Godard was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. In his early days as a film critic for the influential magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, Godard criticised mainstream French cinema’s ‘Tradition of Quality’, which de-emphasised innovation and experimentation.
In response, he and like-minded critics began to make their own films, challenging the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema.
His work makes use of frequent homages and references to film history, and often expresses his political views.
