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760 Ratings

VENOM AND ETERNITY

Traité de bave et d'éternité

Directed by Isidore Isou
France, 1951
Drama, Avant-Garde
  • 124124 minutes

Synopsis

The first Lettrist film manifesto, in which the sound and the picture are purposefully unrelated, and the images are destroyed by bleach and scratched.

Synopsis

The first Lettrist film manifesto, in which the sound and the picture are purposefully unrelated, and the images are destroyed by bleach and scratched.

Our take

With Venom and Eternity, avant-garde poet Isidore Isou had the goal to “hurt your eyes, truly!” Exclaiming his cinematic prophecy in an incendiary voice-over, provoking the viewer with its entrancing, distorted images of everyday life, it is a bona fide surrealist visual revolution.