Le Livre d'image
- Documentary
- Drama
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.
The Image Book is Jean-Luc Godard's experimental documentary-drama that premiered at Cannes in 2018. Through collaged film footage, paintings, archival material, and literary quotes, Godard creates a poetic meditation on contemporary visual culture and the act of creation itself. The film is a densely layered work of cinematic sculpture that examines how images shape modern consciousness.
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Limited theatrical in United States · Rated NR
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Anne-Marie MiévilleNarrator (voice)
Jean-Pierre GosNarrator (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)
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The Image Book – Official U.S. Trailer
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When was The Image Book released?
The Image Book was released on October 11, 2018.
Who made The Image Book?
The film was written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
What kind of film is it?
It's an experimental work that blends documentary and drama, constructed from recycled images (films, TV archives, paintings), music fragments, and literary excerpts edited together through poetic association and contrast.
Where can I watch it?
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