Film

The Image Book

2018 · 1h 28m · Documentary · Drama

Nothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song.

IMDb

6.2

Rotten Tomatoes

90%

Metacritic

76

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.

Jean-Luc Godard

Narrator (voice)

Anne-Marie Miéville

Narrator (voice)

Jean-Pierre Gos

Narrator (voice)

Buster Keaton

(archive footage)

Jean Gabin

(archive footage)

Douglas Fairbanks

(archive footage)

Jean Marais

(archive footage)

Jean Cocteau

(archive footage)

Wallace Beery

(archive footage)

Jules Berry

(archive footage)

Eddie Constantine

(archive footage)

Roberto Cobo

(archive footage)

Danielle Darrieux

(archive footage)

Josette Day

(archive footage)

Jacques Perconte

(archive footage)

Gaby Bruyère

(archive footage)

• Jean-Luc GodardWriter · Director · Editor
• Fabrice AragnoEditor · Producer
• Mitra FarahaniProducer
• Georges SchoucairProducer
• Nicole BrenezEditor
• Jean-Paul BattaggiaEditor

The Image Book – Official U.S. TrailerTHE IMAGE BOOK | Official UK Trailer | MUBIThe Image Book – English Teaser

Release date

October 11, 2018

Status

Released

Original language

French

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

NR

Genres

Documentary, Drama

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