Movie · 88 min · G · doc, drm, hrr, eur
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.
Where to watch The Image Book
Available on 6 platforms across 1 countries.
Chart positions today
Currently charting in 1 countries, best placed at #919 in Japan.
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Available languages
Audio: French
Chart history
The Image Book has spent 0 days in a top 3, 0 days in a top 10 and 1 days in a top 100 across the markets we track. Its best position anywhere is #56.
Cast
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Pierre Gos, Buster Keaton, Jean Gabin, Douglas Fairbanks, Jean Marais, Jean Cocteau, Wallace Beery, Jules Berry, Eddie Constantine, Roberto Cobo, Danielle Darrieux, Josette Day, Jacques Perconte, Gaby Bruyère, Jean Galland, Dimitri Basil
Crew
Jean-Luc Godard (director,writer), Mitra Farahani (producer), Fabrice Aragno (producer), Georges Schoucair (producer)