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.
Jean-Luc Godard
Writer, Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Narrator (voice)
Anne-Marie Miéville
Narrator (voice)
Jean-Pierre Gos
Narrator (voice)
Buster Keaton
(archive footage)
Jean Gabin
(archive footage)
Douglas Fairbanks
(archive footage)
Jean Marais
(archive footage)
Jean Cocteau
(archive footage)
Wallace Beery
(archive footage)
Les Plages d'Agnès77%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Maternal Instinct72%
For Sama83%
Room 23761%
McQueen74%
Les Filles d'Olfa74%
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me84%
Fuck64%
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse79%
The Age of Stupid65%
Everybody’s Everything84%
Blue72%
Milius70%
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead71%
Night Will Fall76%
Love, Antosha74%
Einstein and the Bomb61%
Voyeur59%
Overnight63%
