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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.

Date: 10/11/2018
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Pierre Gos, Buster Keaton, Jean Gabin, Douglas Fairbanks, Jean Marais, Jean Cocteau, Wallace Beery, Jules Berry, Eddie Constantine, Roberto Cobo, Danielle Darrieux, Josette Day, Jacques Perconte, Gaby Bruyère, Jean Galland, Dimitri Basil

Jean-Luc Godard as Narrator (voice) in The Image Book Jean-Luc Godard

Anne-Marie Miéville as Narrator (voice) in The Image Book Anne-Marie Miéville

Jean-Pierre Gos as Narrator (voice) in The Image Book Jean-Pierre Gos

Buster Keaton as (archive footage) in The Image Book Buster Keaton

Jean Gabin as (archive footage) in The Image Book Jean Gabin

Douglas Fairbanks as (archive footage) in The Image Book Douglas Fairbanks

Jean Marais as (archive footage) in The Image Book Jean Marais

Jean Cocteau as (archive footage) in The Image Book Jean Cocteau

Wallace Beery as (archive footage) in The Image Book Wallace Beery

Jules Berry as (archive footage) in The Image Book Jules Berry

Eddie Constantine as (archive footage) in The Image Book Eddie Constantine

Roberto Cobo as (archive footage) in The Image Book Roberto Cobo

Danielle Darrieux as (archive footage) in The Image Book Danielle Darrieux

Josette Day as (archive footage) in The Image Book Josette Day

Jacques Perconte as (archive footage) in The Image Book Jacques Perconte

Gaby Bruyère

Jean Galland as (archive footage) in The Image Book Jean Galland

Dimitri Basil

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