The Image Book

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Nothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song.

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2018 / 88min.

Rating6.4

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Genres

Drama

Documentary

Synopsis

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

Mitra Farahani

Fabrice Aragno

Actors

Buster Keaton

Wallace Beery

Jean Marais

Jean Gabin

Eddie Constantine

Jean-Luc Godard

Danielle Darrieux

Douglas Fairbanks

Josette Day

Jules Berry

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