The Image Book (2018)
Original title: Le Livre d'image
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.
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Jean-Luc GodardNarrator (voice)
Anne-Marie MiévilleNarrator (voice)
Jean-Pierre GosNarrator (voice)
Buster Keaton(film archive footage)
Jean Gabin(film archive footage)
Douglas Fairbanks(film archive footage)
Jean Marais(film archive footage)
Jean Cocteau(film archive footage)
Wallace Beery(film archive footage)
Jules Berry(film archive footage)
Eddie Constantine(film archive footage)
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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.
How long is The Image Book?
The Image Book has a runtime of 88 minutes.
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