The Image Book

The Image Book by Jean-Luc Godard

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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.

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Cast

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard as Narrator (voice)

Anne-Marie Miéville

Anne-Marie Miéville as Narrator (voice)

Jean-Pierre Gos

Jean-Pierre Gos as Narrator (voice)

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton as (archive footage)

Jean Gabin

Jean Gabin as (archive footage)

Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks as (archive footage)

Jean Marais

Jean Marais as (archive footage)

Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau as (archive footage)

Wallace Beery

Wallace Beery as (archive footage)

Jules Berry

Jules Berry as (archive footage)

Eddie Constantine

Eddie Constantine as (archive footage)

Roberto Cobo

Roberto Cobo as (archive footage)

Danielle Darrieux

Danielle Darrieux as (archive footage)

Josette Day

Josette Day as (archive footage)

Jacques Perconte

Jacques Perconte as (archive footage)

Gaby Bruyère

Gaby Bruyère as (archive footage)

Jean Galland

Jean Galland as (archive footage)

Dimitri Basil

Dimitri Basil as (archive footage)

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