Traité de bave et d'éternité
Traité de bave et d'éternité
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Traité de bave et d'éternité

Traité de bave et d'éternité

1951
Drama
2h 0m
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. (imdb)

Traité de bave et d'éternité

1951
Drama
2h 0m
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Rated 23 Sep 2021
10
6th
I couldn't watch all of it. It's a complete disaster. Isou thinks he is a genius just because he destroys everything that people have a consensus that they are essential for cinema. Well, he is not genius and he is not talented. Even though he rejects it, destroying is much more easier than building and those who have the talent have built a new cinema, have made revolutionary(in a good manner) movies again and again in the next 70 years, whereas here he is with this disastrous piece.
Rated 23 Aug 2017
50
14th
Experimental, for sure, but it's probably for the better that it didn't start a trend.
Rated 20 Mar 2015
4
52nd
i appreciated the unabashed egotism of the whole enterprise, and i loved the more crazily abstract sequences, but i wish it lost most of the narration, particularly the romantic shit. i get that would defeat half the point, but that just means that half the point is shit.
Rated 10 Aug 2013
45
41st
It took me two days to get through this, and it wasn't very fun. Still, I appreciated certain aspects of it -- the tension between the personal life described in the narrative and the philosophical ideals expounded by the narrator; the physical manipulation of the film; there are even a few interesting ideas tossed around. But not enough that I'm likely to ever be tempted to watch this again.
Rated 14 Feb 2009
90
91st
You couldn't watch movies like this all the time, because it is quite obnoxious like FitForDanga said. I differ though because I thought this was an extremely interesting, engaging flick because it is a one off. The Letterist philosophy is revolutionary, no matter how cocky Isou himself is. There's too much to say in a short review box like this, but in short, it's not technically enjoyable and is an anti-film. If every movie followed the ideas it'd just be a normal movie, but not every film is.
Rated 05 Oct 2008
23
1st

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