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The Image Book

2018 88 min Documentary, Drama

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.

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The Image Book – Official U.S. Trailer trailer
THE IMAGE BOOK | Official UK Trailer | MUBI trailer
THE IMAGE BOOK Crew Q&A, Sept 15 | TIFF 2018 featurette
THE IMAGE BOOK Crew Q&A, Sept 13 | TIFF 2018 featurette
The Image Book – English Teaser teaser

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