The Image Book - 2018 - Jean-Luc Godard

Much easier than Goodbye to Language, it's collage aesthetic hearkens back to his series Histoire(s) du cinema which i adore. Not a film one watches to be told a story, it's like an ongoing thought process, the cafe scene in Two or Three Things is an example of him doing that in the 60's, in his late collage style everything in the audio visual spectrum is in flux, orchestrated by maestro JLG.

He wanted always to be challenging, and in these late works, and indeed in all of his many many films, there will be those who find new things in them in future generations.

CC quotes:

“The legendary Jean-Luc Godard adds to his influential, iconoclastic legacy with this provocative collage film essay, a vast ontological inquiry into the history of the moving image and a commentary on the contemporary world . . . Displaying an encyclopedic grasp of cinema and its history, Godard pieces together fragments and clips them from some of the greatest films of the past, then digitally alters, bleaches, and washes them, all in the service of reflecting on what he sees in front of him and what he makes of the dissonance that surrounds him. He uses his own voice, reminiscent of those of Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan in the twilights of their careers, to guide us through the fascinating labyrinth of his mind. In some cases, it is to reflect on the metaphysical properties of the world—time, and space, and where meaning is found—but more importantly it is the image, the thing that has obsessed Godard for his entire career, that anchors this film. His ontological enquiry into the image continues to be one of the most moving in history . . . But, as always with Godard, the key issues he raises have to do with the legacy of the last century and its horrors: the incomprehension of Hiroshima and Auschwitz, events that coincided with cinema but which have somehow eluded its gaze. And, movingly, THE IMAGE BOOK also reflects on orientalism and the Arab world, grounding the new film very much in the present.” —Piers Handling, CEO/Director Toronto International Film Festival