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Les chants de Maldoror

Overview

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 abound, with turtles and birds joining Terayama’s regular cast of snails and dogs to wander over books and bare torsos. Feverish video processing posterizes, inverts and overlays images that are further colored by sound—pushing the limits of his literary adaptation. Terayama wrote that the only tombstone he wanted was his words, but, as Les chants de Maldoror demonstrates, words need not be confined to carved monuments or bound hardcopies.

RATING

6.40

DIRECTOR

Shūji Terayama

COUNTRIE

Japan

RELEASE DATE

1978

TIME

0h 30m

GENRE

Fantasy

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新高恵子‌

新高恵子

Susumu Oono‌

Susumu Oono

Yoko Ran‌

Yoko Ran

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