The Image Book

The Image Book

6.4 | 2018-10-11 | Drama Documentary

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.

Featured Crew

Jean-Luc Godard Writer
Jean-Luc Godard Director
Fabrice Aragno Editor
Nicole Brenez Editor
Jean-Luc Godard Editor
Jean-Paul Battaggia Editor
Mitra Farahani Producer
Fabrice Aragno Producer

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)

Images

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