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The Image Book

The Image Book

Nothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song.

20186.31h 28m

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.

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Written by Jean-Luc Godard
Produced by Mitra Farahani, Fabrice Aragno, Georges Schoucair
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Top 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)

Themes & Keywords

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About The Image Book

The Image Book is a documentary, drama film released in 2018 exploring themes of experimental cinema, jean-luc godard. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, it stars Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Pierre Gos. 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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