The image book's reviews
Media reviews
The Guardian
It is bewildering. I?m not sure I understood more than a fraction and of course it can be dismissed as obscurantism and mannerism. But I found 'The Image Book' rich, disturbing and strange.
The Wrap
Make no mistake: This is an angry movie, both in form and in content.
Time
If it?s hard to understand exactly what Godard is trying to say in this brief scrapbook scamper?it clocks in at one hour, 25 minutes?just watching it is a strange, melancholy pleasure, and an open window into the world of things that worry its creator.
Variety
Our world, in 'The Image Book', has finally caught up to Jean-Luc Godard?s doom-laden dream of it. He seems to be saying that we all have a choice: to change it, or to sit back in our TV armchairs and watch.
Time Out
One of the many powerful things about 'The Image Book' is how it so aggressively rejects any sort of gloss or neat packaging. The telling is the story.
Indiewire
More media installation than movie, The Image Book bemoans a vapid world well into the process of disintegration, and his film is engineered to simulate that process in visceral terms.
The Hollywood Reporter
One imagines Godard spending whole days playing with dials, switches and buttons to discover the very moments he wishes to emphasize in his clips, and a good many of them are passingly arresting.
El País
El Mundo
ABC
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote