Venom and Eternity
6.7
In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film, through desynchronizing the soundtrack and the visual track, through deconstructing the story, he aims to renew the seventh art the same way he tried to revolutionize the literary world.
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Cast
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Isidore Isou
Daniel
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Marcel Achard
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Colette Marchand
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Danièle Delorme
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André Maurois
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Armand Salacrou
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Isidore Isou Director · Nat Saufer Cinematographer Suzanne Cabon Editor
First release April 20, 1951 · Produced in France · Original title Traité de bave et d'éternité
Production
Films M.-G. Guillemin
Production
France
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Languages
Original title
Traité de bave et d'éternité
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · April 20, 1951
Premiere
France · January 25, 1952
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Italy
December 28, 2024 · TV · RAI3 (Fuori Orario), restoration
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