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Sep 10, 1997 · Adapted, in our day, from the Isidore Ducasse’ s (called Lautréamont) book, Les Chants de Maldoror (The Maldodor's Chants). The film is a cinematic language essay which "tells", in a non-linear narrative, the activity of a consciousness that confronts, relentlessly, with its brightest part as the most obscure.
Overview. The inspiration, as the title tells, was Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror). Cavallone followed only loosely the poem, interpolating some of its most outrageous content within the story of a film director, Paolo (Gianni Garko) who’s undergoing a deep personal crisis.
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The movie follows the format of film-within-a-film: it tells a story of a film director called Paolo who is working on an adaptation of Les Chants de Maldororwhile having a problematic relationship with a married woman, Monica. The second half of the movie has Paolo going to Turkey to film a number of scenes, and culminates with Paolo's death after...
Cavallone started directing the film in Italy and Turkey in 1975; it was completed, but never released probably due to its explicitly anticlerical content. Around 1979, Cavallone attempted to reuse the footage from the movie in another project, an exploitation flick called Blue Ecstasy. It has been alleged that one of the remaining copies of Maldor...
Synopsis. The inspiration, as the title tells, was Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror). Cavallone followed only loosely the poem, interpolating some of its most outrageous content within the story of a film director, Paolo (Gianni Garko) who’s undergoing a deep personal crisis.
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The first part (which producer Giuseppe Tortorella labelled «mythological porn») is set in Italy, as Marco is working on a film called Maldoror, and focuses on his tormented relationship with a married woman, Monica (Jane Avril).
