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2019
Not Rated
Kino Lorber
1 h 28 m

2019
Not Rated
Kino Lorber
1 h 28 m

Summary Do you still remember how, long ago, we trained our thoughts? Most often we'd start from a dream. We wondered how, in total darkness, colours of such intensity could emerge within us. In a soft, low voice. Saying great things. Surprising, deep and accurate matters. Image and words. Like a bad dream written on a stormy night. Under wester...

Directed By: Jean-Luc Godard

Written By: Jean-Luc Godard

2019
Not Rated
Kino Lorber
1 h 28 m

2019
Not Rated
Kino Lorber
1 h 28 m

The Image Book

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 22 Critic Reviews

76

User Score Mixed or Average Based on 5 User Ratings

5.8

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Summary Do you still remember how, long ago, we trained our thoughts? Most often we'd start from a dream. We wondered how, in total darkness, colours of such intensity could emerge within us. In a soft, low voice. Saying great things. Surprising, deep and accurate matters. Image and words. Like a bad dream written on a stormy night. Under wester...

Directed By: Jean-Luc Godard

Written By: Jean-Luc Godard

Where to Watch

Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 22 Critic Reviews

86% Positive
19 Reviews

14% Mixed
3 Reviews

0% Negative
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Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 22 Critic Reviews

86% Positive
19 Reviews

14% Mixed
3 Reviews

0% Negative
0 Reviews

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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Jan 24, 2019

The Image Book is worth seeing if only as an aesthetic experience – to let its images and sounds wash over you – while also offering itself up as an object to reflect on.

Jan 28, 2019

Coherence was hard to establish but the memory prompts, the lurid colourization and off-beat editing held the attention.

By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW

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User Score

Mixed or Average Based on 5 User Ratings

60% Positive
3 Ratings

20% Mixed
1 Rating

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60% Positive
3 Ratings

20% Mixed
1 Rating

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New York Magazine (Vulture)

Jan 31, 2019

If this turns out to be his final statement (he’s 87), it’s an appropriately ragged one, half-formed but gesturing toward meaning. Every edge bleeds.

By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW

May 18, 2018

Make no mistake: This is an angry movie, both in form and in content.

By Steve Pond FULL REVIEW

Jan 25, 2019

Caveats aside, this is, in my estimation, a typically stimulating but opaque and deliberately frustrating late-period Godard film, good but not great, distinguished primarily by the fact that it's the first Godard film to use no actors at all.

By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW

May 25, 2018

This could well be the old-man-yells-at-cloud meme in avant-garde cinematic form. Yet amid countless examples of pessimism both verbal and visual, Le Livre D’Image also occasionally ventures into hopefulness.

May 18, 2018

Everything seems designed to disturb or perhaps infuriate the viewer.

By John Bleasdale FULL REVIEW

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Details

Production Company Casa Azul Films, Ecran Noir productions

Release Date Jan 25, 2019

Duration 1 h 28 m

Rating Not Rated

Genres

Tagline Nothing but silence.

Website http://www.casa-azul.ch/

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Awards

International Cinephile Society Awards

• 1 Win & 3 Nominations

Cannes Film Festival

• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

Cahiers du Cinéma

• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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