The Society of the Spectacle

Original title: La société du spectacle

1974
1h 31m

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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).

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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)

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The film uses found footage and détournement in a radical Marxist critique of mass marketing and its role in the alienation of modern society.

Connections
Features Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Soundtracks
Les Delices de la Solitude, Op. 20 No. 6 - Sonata in D Major : I. Allegro Moderato
, Written by Michel Corrette

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3/10

Listen up silly children 😡

Here to inform all those silly little children who criticize anarchists based on Debord's society of spectacle that Debor(e)d was NOT an anarchist and that he had made 6 films.

Just because you read him doesn't mean you understood him.

Your iq doesn't allow you to.

Also because I'm feeling myself at the moment I would like to inform you that when I was an anarchist, you were still sucking milk.

Oh you didn't find this review helpful? I bet 3-4 of your friends will feel the same way and you will think that you look like a lot of people.

Who are you convincing?

No one, but you strengthen the ties between your little sect.

In your eco chamber.