JAPAN · 1978

Les chants de Maldoror

Shuji Terayama
surrealism literary adaptation misanthropy experimental cinema avant-garde
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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

Year1978
CountryJapan
DirectorShuji Terayama
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