The Image Book

The Image Book

2018
1h 28m
6.3

6.3/10

81 votes • View on IMDb
Documentary Drama

"Nothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song."

Overview

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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Language: FR

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Production Information

Production Companies
Casa Azul Films Écran noir productions Pejman Foundation
Production Countries
France Switzerland Iran
Spoken Languages
Arabic French English

Keywords

experimental cinema jean-luc godard

Quick Facts

Original Title Le Livre d'image
Release Date October 11, 2018
Status Released
Language FR
IMDb ID tt5749596
Website Visit Site

Cast

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)

Jean Marais
Jean Marais

(archive footage)

Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau

(archive footage)

Wallace Beery
Wallace Beery

(archive footage)

Jules Berry
Jules Berry

(archive footage)

Eddie Constantine
Eddie Constantine

(archive footage)

Roberto Cobo
Roberto Cobo

(archive footage)

Key Crew

Jean-Luc Godard
Writer
Jean-Luc Godard
Director
Mitra Farahani
Producer
Fabrice Aragno
Producer
Georges Schoucair
Producer