Les chants de Maldoror
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.
Year: 1978
Genre: Fantasy
Studio: Jinriki Hikoki Sha
Director: Shūji Terayama
Cast: Keiko Niitaka, Susumu Oono, Yoko Ran
Crew: Shūji Terayama (Director), Shūji Terayama (Writer), Akio Suzuki (Music), Comte de Lautréamont (Novel), Tatsuo Suzuki (Director of Photography)
Runtime: 30 minutes
Release: Feb 02, 1978
IMDb: 6.40/10 by 8 users
Popularity: 1
Country: Japan
Language: No Language
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : based on novel or book, short film
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