Review: Jean-Luc Godard's 'The Image Book' is a searing essay on human violence
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Feb 19, 2019
3 minutes
"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. That's a roundabout way of saying it's a new movie by Jean-Luc Godard, the 88-year-old Swiss-born filmmaker-philosopher-essayist still fondly remembered as one of the last standing pillars of the French New Wave.
It has, of course, been several decades and many more movies since the celluloid-era glories of "Breathless," "Masculin Feminin" and "Weekend," and these days
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