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Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante

1977

102 minutes

Documentary

Overview

Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop culture. Courant posits that his cinema offers an aggressive détournement to the French mainstream, reifying a Duchampian view of film: "I believe in impossible movies and works without meaning... I believe in the anti-movie. I believe in the non-movie. I believe in Urgent... My first full length movie that is so anti-everything that I sometimes wonder if it really does exist!"

Top Cast

John Lennon headshot

John Lennon

Self

Yoko Ono headshot

Yoko Ono

Self

Alain Delon headshot

Alain Delon

Self (archive footage)

Jean-Pierre Melville headshot

Jean-Pierre Melville

Self (archive footage)

André S. Labarthe headshot

André S. Labarthe

Self

Janine Bazin headshot

Janine Bazin

Self