Venom and Eternity
1951·France·120 min.
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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.
DirectorIsidore Isou
ScreenwriterIsidore Isou
MusicDaniel Guarrigue
CinematographyNat Saufer
CastMarcel Achard·Isidore Isou·Jean-Louis Barrault·Blanchette Brunoy·Blaise Cendrars·Jean Cocteau·Danièle Delorme·Edouard Dermithe·Daniel Gélin·André Maurois
Original titleTraité de bave et d'éternité