The approach of the paintings by Paul Delvaux is offered in the form of a discussion between the artist and a psychiatrist who asked about the content of his work. The document gives plenty of room for his paintings that illustrate the themes: the poetic climate, the loneliness of the characters, the naked woman, skeletons ...
Alain Resnais & Robert Hessen use the famous Picasso mural "Guernica" in combination with newspaper headlines in an anti-war cry against the Spanish Civil War. Narration by Jacques Pruvost highlights the Guernica atrocity of April 1937, followed by a poem by Paul Eluard read by María Casares to a discordant score by Guy Bernard.
Home movie from Man Ray while on vacation with Pablo Picasso, Paul, Nusch and Cecile Eluard, Emily Davies, Valerie and Roland Penrose. The friends have fun with themselves and performing for the camera.
Después de un prólogo documental sobre las costumbres del alacrán, unos bandidos descubren a un grupo de arzobispos orando en un acantilado. La fundación de la Imperial Roma, celebrada en el sitio donde oraban los clérigos, se ve interrumpida por los lances amorosos de una pareja que es separada. El hombre es conducido a prisión pero logra escapar y se refugia en casa de su amada. Durante una fiesta, la pareja intenta consumar su pasión sin éxito. Finalmente, los sobrevivientes de una criminal orgía, entre los que se encuentra el duque de Blangis, salen del castillo de Selliny. (FILMAFFINITY)
