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Les chants de Maldoror

02/02/1978

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0hr 30min

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Fantasy

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Keiko Niitaka
  • Susumu Oono
  • Yoko Ran

    Director

  • Shūji Terayama

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Jinriki Hikoki Sha

    Production Countries

  • Japan

LANGUAGES

  • No Language

Cast

Keiko Niitaka

Susumu Oono

Yoko Ran

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