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The Image Book

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6.4/10 • 79

2018-10-111h 28m

DramaDocumentary

Nothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song.

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.

Directors
Jean-Luc Godard
Writters
Jean-Luc Godard
Editors
Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Luc Godard

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  1. Jean-Luc Godard

    Jean-Luc Godard

    Narrator (voice)

  2. Anne-Marie Miéville

    Anne-Marie Miéville

    Narrator (voice)

  3. Jean-Pierre Gos

    Jean-Pierre Gos

    Narrator (voice)

  4. Buster Keaton

    Buster Keaton

    (archive footage)

  5. Jean Gabin

    Jean Gabin

    (archive footage)

  6. Douglas Fairbanks

    Douglas Fairbanks

    (archive footage)

  7. Jean Marais

    Jean Marais

    (archive footage)

  8. Jean Cocteau

    Jean Cocteau

    (archive footage)

  9. Wallace Beery

    Wallace Beery

    (archive footage)

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Status
Released
Original Language
French
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
experimental cinemanouvelle vaguejean-luc godardart movie