The image book: reviews

What the critics say average 7.5 from 7

• 8.0 The GuardianPeter Bradshaw 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. Read
• 8.0 The WrapSteve Pond Make no mistake: This is an angry movie, both in form and in content. Read
• 8.0 TimeStephanie Zacharek 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. Read
• 8.0 VarietyOwen Gleiberman 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. Read
• 8.0 Time OutDave Calhoun 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. Read
• 7.5 IndiewireEric Kohn 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. Read
• 5.0 The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthy 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. Read