The Image Book

For those who know Jean-Luc Godard’s work, The Image Book begins on familiar ground, with breathtaking associations between images from classic films and news footage creating a vision of a world in crisis and a meditation on cinema’s relationship to history. Godard then goes where we have never seen him go before, editing together dozens of clips from films made in the Arab world to depict this region, so often plagued by reductive or sensationalistic reporting, not as a hell on Earth but as a paradise lost.