Watch Les chants de Maldoror (1977) Online

A “reading film” of delirious image and text, Les chants de Maldoror takes its title and inspiration from Comte de Lautréamont’s 1869 proto-Surrealist poetic novel which, for instance, describes beauty as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. In the novel’s six cantos, a young misanthrope indulges in depraved and destructive acts. Unexpected encounters abound, with turtles and birds joining Terayama’s regular cast of snails and dogs to wander over books and bare torsos. Feverish video processing posterizes, inverts and overlays images that are further colored by sound—pushing the limits of his literary adaptation. Terayama wrote that the only tombstone he wanted was his words, but, as Les chants de Maldoror demonstrates, words need not be confined to carved monuments or bound hardcopies. Read More

Watch Les chants de Maldoror online. Featuring Keiko Niitaka and Susumu Oono, Les chants de Maldoror is classified as genre movie with an average rating across the web of 6.4. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Japan and was released on 1977. Les chants de Maldoror was directed by Shūji Terayama. Read Less