The Image Book

In Le Livre dImage JeanLuc 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 JeanLuc 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