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JAPAN · 1978
Les chants de Maldoror
Shuji Terayama
Synopsis
A “reading film” of delirious image and text, Les chants de Maldoror takes its title and inspiration from Comte de Lautréamont’s 1869 proto-Surrealist poetic novel which, for instance, describes beauty as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. In the novel’s six cantos, a young misanthrope indulges in depraved and destructive acts. Unexpected encounters abo
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surrealism · literary adaptation · misanthropy · experimental cinema · avant-garde
