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La Société du spectacle
This film by Guy E. Debord is based on his 1967 book of the same title both of which convey ideas about the consumer capitalism's mode of production and the effects on everyday life. Though both sources use a different means of communication they both powerfully convey the ideas of the situationists. I wont rant on about the ideas contain within this film which are quite profound and have influenced heavily on the Anti-Capitalist movement and post-structuralism through thinkers like Jean Baudril (imdb)
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La Société du spectacle

1973
1h 28m
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Rated 15 Jun 2012
85
92nd
It is hard to know if the pictures of topless women are for the purposes of critique.
Rated 03 May 2015
77
73rd
spoiler alert: the spectacle is mostly naked women.
Rated 07 Feb 2011
70
62nd
I'd rather recommend the book.
Rated 18 Dec 2017
80
78th
The film juxtaposes the images and word in a very intelligent manner that sometimes purposely loses it's structure the way that there are episodes where the connection is really vague, forcing the viewer to concentrate. If the subject is familiar, there can be found some humorous parts where the détournement is used very effectively.
Rated 01 Oct 2020
70
77th
While the notion of the spectacle as a new socio-technological epoch is deservedly influential, and Debord's anti-aesthetic commitment to cinema as a political instrument is admirable (though I would compare it unfavourably to Straub, Huillet, Watkins and, in a way, Syberberg), the theory underpinning his revolutionary approach is really a bit of a mishmash, and, despite his critique of bureaucratic Marxism, there is a nostalgic fixation on the fantasy of the proletariat's dialectical power.
Rated 21 Aug 2021
5
81st
I think the book is one of the most important works of the 20th century and this isn't essential by any means but it's still great. Also lots of naked chicks
Rated 13 Sep 2021
79
74th
Obviously as a piece of theory Debord is much more important than a lot of filmmakers but movie wise it’s not up to like the standard of Godard and the like

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