Legendary French film director Jean-Luc Godard, who spearheaded the revolutionary French New Wave of cinema, passed away.
He was 91.
Godard burst onto the scene with 1960's À bout de souffle (Breathless), which started a run of acclaimed releases that rewrote the rules of film, reports BBC.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Godard "had the vision of a genius".
In a tribute on Twitter, Macron wrote, "He was like an apparition in French cinema. Then he became a master of it.
"Jean-Luc Godard, the most iconoclastic of New Wave filmmakers, invented a resolutely modern, intensely free art. We have lost a national treasure, a man who had the vision of a genius."
His work brought a new verve and daring to cinema and influenced directors from Martin Scorsese to Quentin Tarantino.
According to BBC, Godard's rich seam of influential films in the 1960s also included Le Mépris (Contempt), Bande à Part (Band of Outsiders) and Alphaville.
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