Nothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song.
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.
October 11, 2018
Casa Azul Films, Écran noir productions
18 people
Jean-Luc Godard
Narrator (voice)
Directing
Anne-Marie Miéville
Narrator (voice)
Directing
Jean-Pierre Gos
Narrator (voice)
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Buster Keaton
(archive footage)
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Jean Gabin
(archive footage)
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Douglas Fairbanks
(archive footage)
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Jean Marais
(archive footage)
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Jean Cocteau
(archive footage)
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Wallace Beery
(archive footage)
Acting
Jules Berry
(archive footage)
Acting
Eddie Constantine
(archive footage)
Acting
Roberto Cobo
(archive footage)
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