The Image Book

2018 · directed by Jean-Luc Godard

Rating
71/100
Hit
no

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 (2018), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, rates 71/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

  • Jean-Luc Godard
  • Anne-Marie Miéville
  • Jean-Pierre Gos
  • Buster Keaton
  • Jean Gabin
  • Douglas Fairbanks
  • Jean Marais
  • Jean Cocteau
  • Wallace Beery
  • Jules Berry

Crew

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  6. La Chinoise (1967) — 80/100 · hit

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