The Image Book
56th New York Film Festival
September 28 - October 14, 2018
With Jean-Luc Godard’s The Image Book, all barriers between the artist, his art, and his audience have dissolved. Predominantly comprised of pre-existing images, many of which will be familiar from Godard’s previous work, this is a film in which the relationship between image and sound is, as always, intensely physical and sometimes jaw-dropping.
Jean-Luc Godard’s “late period” probably began with 2001’s In Praise of Love, and since then he has been formulating and enacting a path toward an ending: the ending of individual films, the ending of engagement with cinema, and, now that he’s 87, the possible ending of his own existence. With The Image Book all barriers between the artist, his art, and his audience have dissolved. The film is structured in chapters and predominantly comprised of pre-existing images, many of which will be familiar from Godard’s previous work. The relationship between image and sound is, as always, intensely physical and sometimes jaw-dropping. An NYFF56 selection. A Kino Lorber release.
Read the Jan-Feb 2019 issue of Film Comment magazine, featuring The Image Book with an interview and essay by Amy Taubin and essay by Daniel Morgan.
Mind-blowing.
—Justin Chang, The Los Angeles Times
Momentous. A kaleidoscopic bulletin on the state of our world.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety
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