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The Image Book (2018)

The Image Book (2018)

Drama Documentary

Nothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song.

Release Date: 2018, October 11
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard
Countries: Switzerland, France, Iran
Production: Casa Azul Films, Écran noir productions, Pejman Foundation
Cast: Jean-Pierre Gos, Danielle Darrieux, Eddie Constantine, Jean Marais, Douglas Fairbanks, Jean Gabin, Wallace Beery, Jules Berry, Roberto Cobo, Josette Day, Gaby Bruyère, Jean Galland

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.

Keywords:

experimental cinema jean-luc godard