Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante (1977)
Жанр : документальный
Время выполнения : 1Ч 42М
Директор : Gérard Courant
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Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop culture. Courant posits that his cinema offers an aggressive détournement to the French mainstream, reifying a Duchampian view of film: "I believe in impossible movies and works without meaning... I believe in the anti-movie. I believe in the non-movie. I believe in Urgent... My first full length movie that is so anti-everything that I sometimes wonder if it really does exist!"
Нью-Йорк. 8 декабря 1980 года. Черная дата в истории рок-музыки. Джон Леннон выходит из его нью-йоркских апартаментов «Дакота», где он проживает со своей женой Йоко Оно. Марк Чэпман нажимает на курок и выпускает в рок-идола пять пуль подряд. Почему? За что? Что толкнуло этого на вид нормального, женатого человека убить легенду музыки и лидера молодежи 60-х? За несколько дней до трагедии психическое состояние Чэпмана стремительно ухудшается, он предается жесткой депрессии, его гнетет обыденность и мещанство, его все больше раздражает поведение фанатов, собирающихся у «Дакоты». Нет, жизнь не здесь, а там, «Над пропастью во ржи»… Нездоровая приверженность классическому роману приводит Чэпмана к потере чувства реальности и совершению одного из самых громких преступлений в истории человечества.
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