The Image Book (2018)

Original title

Le Livre d'image

Directed by

Jean-Luc Godard

Genre

documentary film, experimental film, essay film

Country

France, Switzerland

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 83 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film mixes found footage and original images to examine the modern Arab world. It was Jean-Luc Godard's final feature and uses no actors, only a storyteller.

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What happens

The Image Book (French: Le Livre d'image) is a 2018 Swiss avant-garde essay film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It was his final feature film before his death in 2022. Initially titled Tentative de bleu and Image et parole, in December 2016 Wild Bunch co-chief Vincent Maraval stated that Godard had been shooting the film for almost two years "in various Arab countries, including Tunisia" and that it is an examination of the modern Arabic world. Godard told Séance magazine that he was shooting without actors but the film would have a storyteller. The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded an unprecedented "Special Palme d'Or" by the jury as an homage to his career and as an award to the film itself. The film was positively received by film critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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