The Image Book
Le Livre d'image
2018, Film, 88 min, Documentary, Drama, Horror, French, France, MoviePedia score 64
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.
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Cast
- Jean-Luc Godard as Narrator
- Dimitri Basil
- Jean-Pierre Gos as Voice-over
- Anne-Marie Miéville as Narrator
- Jacques Perconte as Après le feu
- Wallace Beery as Un acteur
- Jules Berry as Un acteur
- Gaby Bruyère as Une actrice
- Roberto Cobo as Un acteur
- Jean Cocteau as Un acteur
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