79 reviews
Documentary/Drama
1h 28m
2018
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...

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.
- DirectorJean-Luc Godard
- Release11 October 2018
- Genre
- Duration1h 28m
- Budget?
- Revenue?
- Rate79 reviews
- Productions
Casa Azul Films, Écran noir productions
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)

Eddie Constantine
(archive footage)

Roberto Cobo
(archive footage)

Danielle Darrieux
(archive footage)

Josette Day
(archive footage)

Jacques Perconte
(archive footage)

Jean Galland
(archive footage)
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