Venom and Eternity (1952)
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.
Director: Isidore Isou
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Isidore Isou as Daniel |
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Jean Cocteau as Self |
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Jean-Louis Barrault as Self |
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Marcel Achard as Self |
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Blaise Cendrars as Self |
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Colette Marchand as (voice) |
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Blanchette Brunoy as Self |
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Danièle Delorme as Self |
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Édouard Dermithe as Self |
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Daniel Gélin as Self |
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André Maurois as Self |
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Armand Salacrou as Self |
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Rodica Valeanu as |
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Albert J. LeGros as Daniel (voice) |
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Bernard Blin as Narrator (voice) |
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Serge as (voice) |
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Marc'o as |
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Maurice as (voice) |
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Jean-Louis Brau as |
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François Dufrêne as (voice) |
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Maurice Lemaître as |
| Directing | Isidore Isou | Director |
| Writing | Isidore Isou | Writer |
| Camera | Nat Saufer | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Suzanne Cabon | Editor |