The Image Book(2018)

The Image Book Synopsis

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) is a documentary and drama film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, released on October 11, 2018 with a runtime of 1h 28m. It stars Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Pierre Gos and Buster Keaton. Viewers rate it 6.3 out of 10 across 85 ratings.