To Alter the Image
1982 · 10 MIN · IMDB 6.3 · 89 VOTES · DIR. Jean-Luc Godard
Overview
1981: at the moment the left won power, French television commissioned Godard to make a film on the theme of change. Like Lettre à Freddy Buache, this film is born of the impossibility of carrying out the commission. For the space where change appears is not the image but the gap between images.
Dialogue Timeline — 126 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:03 TO ALTER THE IMAGE
00:01:35 You try to find an image of change
00:02:02 ...can an image change? Why did I make this film?
00:02:32 that has to do with sin. It's very much tied to the text.
00:03:07 A civil servant from the realm of the central television
00:03:25 And he, our imbecile, who so easily confused
00:03:49 After much thought in front of a mirror given to him by Jean Cocteau
00:04:15 between the image of life and the life of images.
00:04:36 we fit into centre or the periphery of the universe.
00:04:56 that had invited him due to his "sympathies" for these kinds of places
00:06:06 the way other people before confused love with work.
00:06:31 including all the foreign experts and advisors, except one: our fool.
00:06:54 how to build up a TV that serves the people without endagering the powers
00:07:17 Without further ado, they entrusted him with a former news reporter
00:07:40 by using animal psychology and human force
00:08:02 The image of change... change is vast, you find it everywhere
00:08:31 any text can be considered a text to the beloved.
00:09:00 And there was also this idea of being humiliated.
00:09:29 maybe giving and receiving slaps in the face
00:09:58 and the mixing of these letters could have been an image of many things
00:10:19 That reminds me of when I was little
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed126
Dialogue density12.6 lines / min
First line00:01:03
Final line00:10:19
Production Record
DirectorJean-Luc Godard
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes89