The Image Book poster

The Image Book | Le Livre d'image

Nothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song.

Description: 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.

Genres: Drama, Documentary

Homepage: https://www.festival-cannes.com/f/le-livre-d-image/

Budget: $0 | Revenue : $0

Runtime: 88 minutes

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Jean-Luc Godard

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Anne-Marie Miéville

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Jean-Pierre Gos

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Buster Keaton

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Jean Gabin

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Douglas Fairbanks

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Jean Marais

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Jean Cocteau

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Wallace Beery

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Jules Berry

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Eddie Constantine

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Roberto Cobo

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Danielle Darrieux

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Josette Day

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Jacques Perconte

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Gaby Bruyère

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Jean Galland

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Dimitri Basil

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