I only liked Goddard films for a brief spell during my late teenage years and the first few of my days in photography school. Using Ingmar Bergman's words I just could not see his pictures,I sit for perhaps twenty-five or thirty or fifty minutes and then I have to leave. I found his cinema naive and difficult for the sake of it. I admired Goddard more for his persistence in Maoism and his political actions like the sabotage of Cannes in 1968 than his cinematic work. Some people we admire more for their significance than their artistic output. And when such political figures perish in a time where society is trapped into a groundhog day between a nostalgia for the past and a future that never comes, people like him will be missed and can't be replaced. Even thought me and his cinema never did well, I admired Goddard for being loyal almost all his life to an ideology that infused in his art, even as a utopian universe was a better alternative to the ongoing onslaught of capitalism on social structure. I could never be a supporter of any other culture than the French, I never found any other country to embrace socialism as a a true expression of humanism and Goddard was maybe one of its most honest ambassadors.