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Venom and Eternity

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Isidore scratches and bleaches film to make a new form of visual art.

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J. Hoberman The New York Review of Books Consider it a recalcitrant chunk of twentieth-century cultural history. Aug 14, 2020 Full Review J. Hoberman Village Voice Launched an all-out attack on conventional cinema. Apr 26, 2005 Full Review Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid It's angry and abrasive but also has a definite passion for cinema. Sep 6, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Very interesting, but nothing more. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member This is defently the strangest Movie i ever seen a radical Attack on Conventional Cinema it begins with a few Minutes just hear the same Setentence over and over again than we see Pictures of a Guy walking trough Paris and Pictures of the People in Paris doin their Day and the Maker talk and talk about Cinema heavy Stuff he has a extremly radical View on Things he damn the Conventional Cinema and even the Silent Film i share his View that Extremism is something really amazing but i also liked the Beauty in Film he has really progressive Ideas and crizize intelligent the System and the Society but also he is totally obsessed by himself and his Ideas so it is also a View on his Disturbed Mind in the Second Half we hear the Story of the Relationship of a Young Couple and also about Criminal Activites so it is a Melodrama and a Gangster Radio Play and we see again Pictures of the Life in Paris but this Time there are Strange Things in the Picture and sometimes the Picture is on the false Side it get more and more interessting then some Guys speak Poems in self-invented Words to more extreme Strange Things in the Picture it is really funny then we hear the Radio Play and Talking about the Film rotatory and again Pictures of Paris and other Things like Hitler the Maker calls his Movie the best Movie of all Time i don't share that View but it's defently one the strangest and progressvist Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Isidore scratches and bleaches film to make a new form of visual art.
Director
Isidore Isou
Producer
Marco, Léon Vickman
Screenwriter
Isidore Isou
Genre
Drama
Original Language
French (France)
Runtime
2h 0m