The Image Book
In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the…
Strange Tales
A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord’s corpse in the floor, and a…
The Crowned Fish Tavern
Captain Palmer’s daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with the beautiful Sylvia. To defeat his son-in-law, Palmer has the idea of putting Sylvia back…
The Devil’s Envoys
At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the Devil to a castle to seduce its inhabitants.
Daybreak
After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events the led him to the killing.
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police’s description: his name is Amedee Lange, and he murdered…
L’Argent
Adapted from the novel L’Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.