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Venom and Eternity(1952)
Status: Released
Date: 1952-01-25
69%
18 Votes
Time: 2h 3m
Overview:
In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film, through desynchronizing the soundtrack and the visual track, through deconstructing the story, he aims to renew the seventh art the same way he tried to revolutionize the literary world.
Languages: French.
Countries:
France
ProductionCompanies:
Films M.-G. Guillemin
Movie: Venom and Eternity
Top 10 Billed Cast
Jean Cocteau
Self
Jean-Louis Barrault
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Marcel Achard
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Blanchette Brunoy
Self
Danièle Delorme
Self
Édouard Dermithe
Self
Daniel Gélin
Self
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Overview
In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film, through desynchronizing the soundtrack and the visual track, through deconstructing the story, he aims to renew the seventh art the same way he tried to revolutionize the literary world.
Release Date
1952-01-25
Average
6.9
Rating:
3.5 startsTagline
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Languages:
Français
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