Closed Vision

Closed Vision

🎞️ Movie 62 min US
โ˜… 6.1 /10 1954

A nearly forgotten feature by one of the founders of Lettrism, Closed Vision was the directorial debut of Marc'O (born Marc-Gilbert Guillaumin), editor of the short-lived Lettrist film journal Ion and producer of Jean-Isidore Isou's infamous Traité de bave et d'eternité. Compared to that film or Maurice Lemaitre's Le film est déjà commencé?, Closed Vision is a more literary and downright genial effort. If Isou and Lemaitre were content to "destroy cinema" (exposing ugly, banal images or simply splicing in scratched-up blank leader in semi-conjunction with endless soundtrack harangues), Marc'O here seems almost to save it - or at least to invest serious effort toward finding a cinematic idiom equivalent to the novel's stream-of-consciousness (the subtitle is 'Sixty Minutes in the Interior Life of a Man'). Debuted at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival with endorsements from Jean Cocteau and Luis Buñuel.

Cast

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Danièle Maurel
La fille
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Danièle Maurel
The Girl
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Robert R. Guiot
L'homme en noir
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Robert R. Guiot
The Man in Black
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Merlin Hare
L'enfant
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Merlin Hare
The Child
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Robert Patissier
L'homme au cigare
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Robert Patissier
Man with Cigar
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Monsieur Closse
Un dineur
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Monsieur Closse
A Diner
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Madame Closse
Une dineuse
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Madame Closse
A Diner
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Monsieur Dieulivol
Un dineur
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Monsieur Dieulivol
A Diner
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Madame Dieulivol
Une dineuse
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Madame Dieulivol
A Diner
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Simone Larrous
La fille au Bikini
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Simone Larrous
The Girl in the Bikini
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André Jaud
Voix du dialogue intérieur (French)
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Roger Calmel
Composer
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Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
Cinematographer