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Critics Consensus: Potentially insurmountable for viewers not attuned to the director's wavelength, The Image Book is typically confounding - and ultimately rewarding - late-period Godard.
Critic Consensus: 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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"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.
"The Image Book" lives and breathes cinema; the cutting and sound games (up and down and all around) remain arresting and instinctive and inspired.
Concerned neither with telling stories nor even making rational sense, Godard aims straight for lyrical beauty, and he almost always hits his target.
The film has the intimacy of a personal postcard sharing memories of deceased friends, favourite films and political touchstones.
Another free-associative cinematic meditation on language, the image, and extinction, by a master of the form.
After all this time, we are not much closer to understanding Godard, but he seems to understand us all too well.
An exhilarating hurricane of sound, vision and heady thoughts that is as powerful to experience as it is elusive when it comes to summing it all up afterwards.
...gloriously obscure and brutally unpretty, yet lucid and even gorgeous all the same.
The Image Book is such an internal film, filled with the way we process, urging the audience at all times to process for itself.
There's not a filmmaker alive that produces more self-doubt in my critical capacities than Jean-Luc Godard.
This is a dense film that has the structure of an essay picture, the tone of a dystopian thriller, the scope of a history book. Free association on mescaline. Brilliant.
This may strain the comprehension (and patience) of those unversed in the topic (guilty), but as with so much in this brief and moving testament to the power of the image, you can also just let it wash over you.
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