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The Image Book

The Image Book

IMDB:

6.3
The Image Book

Released

10/11/2018

Duration

1h 28m

Genre

Documentary, Drama

Country

France

Cast

Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Pierre Gos

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.

Cast

Jean-Luc Godard

Narrator (voice)

Jean-Luc Godard

Anne-Marie Miéville

Narrator (voice)

Anne-Marie Miéville

Jean-Pierre Gos

Narrator (voice)

Jean-Pierre Gos

Buster Keaton

(archive footage)

Buster Keaton

Jean Gabin

(archive footage)

Jean Gabin

Douglas Fairbanks

(archive footage)

Douglas Fairbanks

Jean Marais

(archive footage)

Jean Marais

Jean Cocteau

(archive footage)

Jean Cocteau

Wallace Beery

(archive footage)

Wallace Beery

Jules Berry

(archive footage)

Jules Berry

Eddie Constantine

(archive footage)

Eddie Constantine

Roberto Cobo

(archive footage)

Roberto Cobo

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