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2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Jean-Luc Godard’s The Image Book (Le livre d’images)

Published on May 12, 2018

Walking up and down the Croisette we are reminded of his presence at the festival with the 1965’s Pierrot le Fou and so after being included in the comp back in 2014’s Goodbye to Language, Jean-Luc Godard follows suit with The Image Book (Le livre d’images).

With grades close to perfection and some bottom of the barrel reactions, the critic divide is once again alive and well for l’enfant terrible.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).