Louis Aragon

Movies

Aurélien
Novel
France, 1920s: An affluent ladies' man finds himself in love with a homely married woman.
1914 the Glorious Summer
Novel
An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital.
Video 50
An extraordinary video sketchbook; A highly original, visually dramatic and frequently humorous collection of one hundred abbreviated "episodes" produced for television. Unfolding as a series of thirty-second vignettes, this enigmatic essay in style is characterized by a deadpan theatricality, symbolist imagery, surrealist juxtapositions and repetition of key visual motifs.
Elsa the Rose
Writer
Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.
Elsa the Rose
Self
Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.
La rose et le réséda
Poem
The poem of the same name by Aragon is read in order to make a statement about the 1940s wartime French Resistance.
Defensa de Madrid (Segunda parte)
Documentary short made during the Spanish Civil War.
Le Cœur à barbe
Himself (Surrealist poet)
The young poets, a nucleus of the dada art movement and pioneers of surrealist poetry, sit in a corner reading their works and ringing a bell.