The Image Book | Le Livre d’image
The Image BookLe Livre d'image
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.
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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
Crew
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Paul Battaggia
Jean-Luc Godard
Nicole Brenez
Fabrice Aragno