The festival noted that the work will remain as the ultimate gesture of cinema.

The billing is: A Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello and Vixens production, in co-production with LAtelier.

But I was more interested in Florence Platarets one-hour documentaryGodard by Godardthat precededPhoney Wars.

Godard by Godard

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Here was the cinema giant recalling how his mother warned him that filmmaking was a dangerous world.

And then theres Godard proclaiming that cinemas biggest enemy is television.

Others will surely argue otherwise, but Ill stand with Truffaut.

Jean-Luc Godard King Lear

(L to R) Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro on the red carpet in CannesGisela Schober/Getty Images

Interesting to see the Godard homage the same weekend as I caught two films by American cinema artists.

Such was its power.

And Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro are at the top of their games.

I wanted justice for her!

I wasnt there, by the way.

Im definitely second or third tier when it comes to Apple.

I think they like to punish if one has pissed them off.

I was invited to some sort of Apple soiree on Sunday but I was busy.

After the film I walked in the soaking rain to the after-party at Magnum Beach.

For the record, I did not partake in a chocolate-dipped ice cream with nuts and hundreds and thousands.

That doesnt always happen, he confided.

Well be hearing a lot about him in coming months and Lily Gladstone, too.