There are many stories about Jean-Luc Godard in Cannes, such as the year he helped close it (1968) due to the civil unrest then ravaging France. Then there was the time (in 1985) when he was ambushed at the Palais by a Belgian anarchist and hit in the face with a cream pie after the premiere of Detective. And as recently as 2018, he gave a press conference for his film The Image Book via FaceTime from Switzerland, forcing journalists to queue to speak on a cell phone.
But the story that endures the longest is when, in 1985, he signed a contract on a napkin with Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, CEO of The Cannon Group, whose big hits that year were Invasion USA, starring Chuck Norris, and Death Wish 3, with Charles Bronson. Godard — died last year at the age…
