Jean-luc godard film visual imagery strategy
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The Image Book
(Le livre d'image)
Four years in the making,Jean-Luc Godard’s Le livre d’image could not be more of the moment.
Jean-luc godard film visual imagery strategy
It is almost without narrative constraints—the most abstract in the series of collage films that spin off from his epic Histoire(s) du cinema (1988–98)—and is thus as ephemeral as a dream.
I saw it twice at Cannes in May, and although I still remember the intensity of the experience, the details have fled my mind.
More rapidly edited and visually explosive than Histoire(s), Le livre d’image revisits 120 years of cinema.
A meditative, first-person voiceover comprising literary and philosophical musings, occasionally overlapped by sync-sound fragments and punctuated throughout by music, reflects on a world history that cinema has tried and typically failed to represent.
While many of the images are familiar from Godard’s previous collage films,