Venom and Eternity

Overview

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.

Directed by Isidore Isou

Top cast

I

Isidore Isou

Daniel

Jean Cocteau

Self

Jean-Louis Barrault

Self

Marcel Achard

Self

B

Blaise Cendrars

Self

C

Colette Marchand

(voice)

Blanchette Brunoy

Self

Danièle Delorme

Self

Édouard Dermithe

Self

Daniel Gélin

Self

André Maurois

Self

Armand Salacrou

Self

R

Rodica Valeanu

A

Albert J. LeGros

Daniel (voice)

B

Bernard Blin

Narrator (voice)

S

Serge

(voice)

M

Marc'o

M

Maurice

(voice)

J

Jean-Louis Brau

F

François Dufrêne

(voice)

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