Following the 3D Goodbye to Language  Jean-Luc Godard returns with The Image Book  a bracing  beautiful and provocative essay film interrogating our relationship with film  culture and global politics Splicing together classic film clips and modern newsreel footage  often stretched  saturated and distorted almost beyond recognition  The Image Book - winner of the Special Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival - is a visually stunning voyage through layers of light and darkness  sound and silence  innocence and guilt