Film

French Film Festival on Tour: The Image Book

Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Certificate
15
Running Time
85 mins

87-year-old veteran Jean-Luc Godard‘s state of the world cinematic collage was unveiled at Cannes to much head-scratching and plenty of praise.

Compiled from a variety of sources (classic Hollywood clips, paintings, news footage, YouTube propaganda, etc) it has a timely message about the intervention of the west in the Arab world, though The Independent acknowledged that: “Some will find The Image Book incomprehensible and pretentious. It’s a conceptual work that could easily be seen in a gallery rather than a conventional cinema. Some of the political posturing here feels very old fashioned.” It’s on screen to launch the French Film Festival on Tour.

By robin askew, Friday, Nov 23 2018

Tags:

  • Drama
  • Documentary
  • Festival Screening

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