The Image Book

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BBFC RatingThe Image Book

Certificate15
Year2018
GenreDrama
Director(s)Jean-Luc Godard
LanguageFrench
CountrySwitzerland, France
Running Time1HR 25MINS
Extra InfoSubtitled
SeasonFrench Film Festival

Jean-Luc Godard pushes his exploration of words, sounds and images to vivid new extremes in this complex, dizzying mix of film, essay and collage.

Spinning ever further from his New Wave narrative roots, Godard revisits the approach of his pioneering Histoire(s) du Cinéma in a collaborative venture with Fabrice Aragno, Jean-Paul Battaggia and Nicole Brenez. Emerging from a flash storm of spoken and written screen texts, artworks, film and TV clips is a suggestive, polyphonic discourse about the contemporary condition. It takes in those recurrent Godard themes – film history and the Holocaust – as well as an extended contemplation of the Middle East and the West’s incapacity to understand it as anything but an indefinable ‘other’. With a characteristically fragmented soundtrack, including sonic radicals Alfred Schnittke and Scott Walker, this tonic workout for the mind, eyes and imagination shows Godard, at 87, as intransigently and vitally confrontational as ever. 

- Jonathan Romney, BFI London Film Festrival

Screening as part of the 26th French Film Festival.

This film contains a sequence of flashing lights which might affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.



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