Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante (1977)
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!"
Cast
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)
Claude Berri
Self
André S. Labarthe
Self
Christian Fouchet
Self
Idi Amin
Self (archive footage)
Herb Alpert
Self
Gérard Courant
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