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Guy Debord's cinematic analysis of consumer society based on his influential book "La société du spectacle" (1967).Guy Debord's cinematic analysis of consumer society based on his influential book "La société du spectacle" (1967).Guy Debord's cinematic analysis of consumer society based on his influential book "La société du spectacle" (1967).
Guy Debord
- Narrator
- (voice)
Leonid Brezhnev
- Self
- (archive footage)
Fidel Castro
- Self
- (archive footage)
Jacques Duclos
- Self
- (archive footage)
Buenaventura Durruti
- Self
- (archive footage)
Robert Fabre
- Self
- (archive footage)
Nino Ferrer
- Self
- (archive footage)
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
- Self
- (archive footage)
Johnny Hallyday
- Self
- (archive footage)
George Harrison
- Self
- (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
- Self
- (archive footage)
Henry Kissinger
- Self
- (archive footage)
Aleksey Kosygin
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Alexei Kosygin)
Vladimir Lenin
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as V.I. Lenin)
Zedong Mao
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Mao Zedong)
Georges Marchais
- Self
- (archive footage)
Paul McCartney
- Self
- (archive footage)
Eddy Mitchell
- Self
- (archive footage)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe film uses found footage and détournement in a radical Marxist critique of mass marketing and its role in the alienation of modern society.
- ConnectionsFeatures Battleship Potemkin (1925)
- SoundtracksLes Delices de la Solitude, Op. 20 No. 6 - Sonata in D Major : I. Allegro Moderato
, Written by Michel Corrette
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The movie is a critique itself. Depends of the political view of 'the spectator', it is masterpiece or rubbish. And another group will find this movie too hard to understand and confusing, a kind of mumbling gibberish or an intellectual fart. First two political perspective, I welcome respect and salute. The last group go back to your place in this world. You are travelling a wrong direction.
This documentary style of montage of images with reading a narrative and adding some scenes from other movies creates a boring style. The images very powerful but the ideas surpass images and take the focus from images and creates a thinking frenzy. Some very provocative, some subtle.
My critique to this movie, Could we use better images? More accurate timing, stronger images. Could we focus less idea? Instead try to answer and reach every aspects and create very concentrated movie, little diluted more visually pleasing and easily understandable movie/documentary.
Very interesting piece. It is very hard to watch without prejudice. Definitely recommend, even as a mental challenge. 8/10.
This documentary style of montage of images with reading a narrative and adding some scenes from other movies creates a boring style. The images very powerful but the ideas surpass images and take the focus from images and creates a thinking frenzy. Some very provocative, some subtle.
My critique to this movie, Could we use better images? More accurate timing, stronger images. Could we focus less idea? Instead try to answer and reach every aspects and create very concentrated movie, little diluted more visually pleasing and easily understandable movie/documentary.
Very interesting piece. It is very hard to watch without prejudice. Definitely recommend, even as a mental challenge. 8/10.
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- Also known as
- La sociedad del espectáculo
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- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Society of the Spectacle (1974) officially released in Canada in English?
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