The Image Book

The Image Book

Nothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song.

2018 fr 88 minutes

Rating: 6.361

Plot

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.

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Cast

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

Narrator (voice)

Anne-Marie Miéville

Anne-Marie Miéville

Narrator (voice)

Jean-Pierre Gos

Jean-Pierre Gos

Narrator (voice)

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

(archive footage)

Jean Gabin

Jean Gabin

(archive footage)

Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks

(archive footage)

Jean Marais

Jean Marais

(archive footage)

Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

(archive footage)

Wallace Beery

Wallace Beery

(archive footage)

Jules Berry

Jules Berry

(archive footage)

Eddie Constantine

Eddie Constantine

(archive footage)

Roberto Cobo

Roberto Cobo

(archive footage)

Danielle Darrieux

Danielle Darrieux

(archive footage)

Josette Day

Josette Day

(archive footage)

Jacques Perconte

Jacques Perconte

(archive footage)

Gaby Bruyère

Gaby Bruyère

(archive footage)

Jean Galland

Jean Galland

(archive footage)

Dimitri Basil

Dimitri Basil

(archive footage)

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