In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film, through desynchronizing the soundtrack and the visual track, through deconstructing the story, he aims to renew the seventh art the same way he tried to revolutionize the literary world.
Young Man on the Terrace of the Flora (uncredited)
Orfeo es un poeta obsesionado con la Muerte (la Princesa) de la cual se enamora. Un día los esbirros de la Muerte matan a Eurídice, la esposa de Orfeo, y éste decide seguirla hasta el Inframundo para rescatarla. Este film es la parte central de la trilogía órfica de Jean Cocteau: La sangre de un poeta (1932), Orfeo (1950) y El testamento de Orfeo (1960).
