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The Image Book(2018)
Status: Released
Date: 2018-10-11
64%
78 Votes
Time: 1h 28m
Nothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song.
Overview:
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.
Languages: Arabic, French, English.
Countries:
France,
Switzerland
ProductionCompanies: 
Écran noir productions
Movie: The Image Book
Top 10 Billed Cast
Jean-Luc Godard
Narrator (voice)
Anne-Marie Miéville
Narrator (voice)
Jean-Pierre Gos
Narrator (voice)
Buster Keaton
(archive footage)
Jean Gabin
(archive footage)
Douglas Fairbanks
(archive footage)
Jean Marais
(archive footage)
Jean Cocteau
(archive footage)
Wallace Beery
(archive footage)
Jules Berry
(archive footage)
Video Trailer The Image Book
Video: The Image Book – Official U.S. Trailer
The Image Book – Official U.S. Trailer
THE IMAGE BOOK | Official UK Trailer | MUBI
The Image Book – English Teaser
THE IMAGE BOOK Crew Q&A, Sept 13 | TIFF 2018
THE IMAGE BOOK Crew Q&A, Sept 15 | TIFF 2018
All 5 videos
The Image Book – Official U.S. Trailer - Trailer
THE IMAGE BOOK | Official UK Trailer | MUBI - Trailer
The Image Book – English Teaser - Teaser
THE IMAGE BOOK Crew Q&A, Sept 13 | TIFF 2018 - Featurette
THE IMAGE BOOK Crew Q&A, Sept 15 | TIFF 2018 - Featurette
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