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Society of the Spectacle
Society of the Spectacle
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SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE

La société du spectacle

Directed by Guy Debord
France, 1974
Documentary

Synopsis

A subversive collage film made from footage. Erotic images clash with scenes from films by the likes of John Ford and Orson Welles. The lines that Guy Debord proclaims in the film are taken from his eponymous book “La société du spectacle” that fanned the flames of student protests in 1968.

Synopsis

A subversive collage film made from footage. Erotic images clash with scenes from films by the likes of John Ford and Orson Welles. The lines that Guy Debord proclaims in the film are taken from his eponymous book “La société du spectacle” that fanned the flames of student protests in 1968.

Our take

Drawn from a wildly varied range of archival materials, Guy Debord’s eponymous adaptation of his piercing treatise on modern society bucks against the numbing gloss of commercial cinema. A theoretically rigorous and timeless wake-up call, this landmark film rouses us from the slumber of capitalism.