The Image Book
The Image Book

The Image Book

6.3

1 hr 28 min

2018-10-11

82

In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the association or opposition of ideas, the aesthetic spark through editing, the keystone. The author performs the work of a sculptor. The hand, for this, is essential. He praises it at the start. “There are the five fingers. The five senses. The five parts of the world (…). The true condition of man is to think with his hands. Jean-Luc Godard composes a dazzling syncopation of sequences, the surge of which evokes the violence of the flows of our contemporary screens, taken to a level of incandescence rarely achieved. Crowned at Cannes, the last Godard is a shock film, with twilight beauty.

Documentary

Drama

Trailers

Characters

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

Narrator (voice)

Anne-Marie Miéville

Anne-Marie Miéville

Narrator (voice)

Jean-Pierre Gos

Jean-Pierre Gos

Narrator (voice)

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

(archive footage)

Jean Gabin

Jean Gabin

(archive footage)

Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks

(archive footage)

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