Antonin Artaud in a 1923 threesome film? The Surrealists were WILD.
An experimental short from 1923 France which offers silent narrative in diverse, optical multi-exposures and severe close-ups offering dense montages which create psychological constructs that unfold a Parisian love affair which turns into a threesome of great emotion and consequences. Also notable for using Antonin Artaud as the male lead.
Cinematography
Multi-exposure techniques that broke 1923's brain.
Acting
Artaud's face is a weapon before his theories existed.
Director
Claude Autant-Lara
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Artaud was only 27 here, years before his Theatre of Cruelty manifesto—this is essentially his audition for his own theories.
Claude Autant-Lara would later become a major French director, but this early experiment with Artaud was buried for decades—too weird even for the Surrealists' own archives.
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