Film

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

1977 · 1h 42m · Documentary

IMDb

6.0

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!"

John Lennon

Self

Yoko Ono

Self

Mouna

Self

Marie-José Nat

Self

Daniel Gélin

Self

Marisa Mell

Self

Alain Delon

Self (archive footage)

Jean-Pierre Melville

Self (archive footage)

Janine Bazin

Self

Claude Berri

Self

André S. Labarthe

Self

Christian Fouchet

Self

Idi Amin

Self (archive footage)

Herb Alpert

Self

Gérard Courant

Self

• Gérard CourantDirector · Writer · Editor · Producer

Release date

August 1, 1977

Status

Released

Original language

French

Runtime

1h 42m

Genres

Documentary

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