Venom and Eternity
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.
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Isidore Isou
Daniel
Jean Cocteau
Self
Jean-Louis Barrault
Self
Marcel Achard
Self
Blaise Cendrars
Self
Colette Marchand
(voice)
Blanchette Brunoy
Self
Danièle Delorme
Self
Édouard Dermithe
Self
Daniel Gélin
Self
André Maurois
Self
Armand Salacrou
Self
Rodica Valeanu
Albert J. LeGros
Daniel (voice)
Bernard Blin
Narrator (voice)
Serge
(voice)
Marc'o
Maurice
(voice)
Jean-Louis Brau
François Dufrêne
(voice)
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