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Potentially insurmountable for viewers not attuned to the director's wavelength, The Image Book is typically confounding - and ultimately rewarding - late-period Godard.
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Another infuriatingly incomprehensible Godard movie made up entirely out of archival images... Having said that, some of the imagery is powerful. September 18, 2019 | Full Review…
Another infuriatingly incomprehensible Godard movie made up entirely out of archival images... Having said that, some of the imagery is powerful.
Peter Rainer
A rumination on art, politics, history, and mankind's eternal folly disguised as a cinematic collage. It's plotless but it has shape; random but with purpose. February 28, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
A rumination on art, politics, history, and mankind's eternal folly disguised as a cinematic collage. It's plotless but it has shape; random but with purpose.
Ty Burr
"The Image Book" is an 85-minute cinematic brainstorm, a swirling, dazzling, maddening frenzy of disconnected sights and sounds that have been compiled and arranged according to a rhythmic and rhetorical logic that only its maker can fully divine. February 13, 2019 | Full Review…
"The Image Book" is an 85-minute cinematic brainstorm, a swirling, dazzling, maddening frenzy of disconnected sights and sounds that have been compiled and arranged according to a rhythmic and rhetorical logic that only its maker can fully divine.
Justin Chang
"The Image Book" lives and breathes cinema; the cutting and sound games (up and down and all around) remain arresting and instinctive and inspired. February 8, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
"The Image Book" lives and breathes cinema; the cutting and sound games (up and down and all around) remain arresting and instinctive and inspired.
Michael Phillips
Concerned neither with telling stories nor even making rational sense, Godard aims straight for lyrical beauty, and he almost always hits his target. February 7, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Concerned neither with telling stories nor even making rational sense, Godard aims straight for lyrical beauty, and he almost always hits his target.
Ben Sachs
The film has the intimacy of a personal postcard sharing memories of deceased friends, favourite films and political touchstones. January 25, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
The film has the intimacy of a personal postcard sharing memories of deceased friends, favourite films and political touchstones.
David Davidson
Contorted, baffling, polarizing and idiosyncratic documentary. November 22, 2019 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Contorted, baffling, polarizing and idiosyncratic documentary.
Dennis Schwartz
...a work, both surprising and confounding, that indicates the lyrical and poetic potential of montage-based cinema. October 30, 2019 | Full Review…
...a work, both surprising and confounding, that indicates the lyrical and poetic potential of montage-based cinema.
Tanner Tafelski
Jean-Luc Godard achieves his objective and redeems cinema's original function: The Image Book makes us see and invites us to think. [Full Review in Spanish] August 9, 2019 | Full Review…
Jean-Luc Godard achieves his objective and redeems cinema's original function: The Image Book makes us see and invites us to think. [Full Review in Spanish]
Hugo Hernández Valdivia
In The Image Book, Godard puts the visual appeal before the text or sound in an experimental way. [Full review in Spanish] July 22, 2019 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
In The Image Book, Godard puts the visual appeal before the text or sound in an experimental way. [Full review in Spanish]
Mabel Salinas
The Image Book is an intellectual "game," a broken puzzle, a confusing labyrinth made up of over 100 years of movement... which doesn't search for any type of linearity or equilibrium... but has a fun charm to it. [Full Review in Spanish] July 19, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The Image Book is an intellectual "game," a broken puzzle, a confusing labyrinth made up of over 100 years of movement... which doesn't search for any type of linearity or equilibrium... but has a fun charm to it. [Full Review in Spanish]
Luis Fernando Galván
It is an ambitious work that can not be bounced, which in its challenges and ambiguities constitutes an accurate portrait of who we are. [Full Review in Spanish] July 18, 2019 | Full Review…
It is an ambitious work that can not be bounced, which in its challenges and ambiguities constitutes an accurate portrait of who we are. [Full Review in Spanish]
Alonso Díaz de la Vega
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