Traité de bave et d'éternité

Experimental, for sure, but it's probably for the better that it didn't start a trend.

I couldn't watch all of it. It's a complete disaster. Isou thinks he is a genius just because he destroys everything that people have a consensus that they are essential for cinema. Well, he is not genius and he is not talented. Even though he rejects it, destroying is much more easier than building and those who have the talent have built a new cinema, have made revolutionary(in a good manner) movies again and again in the next 70 years, whereas here he is with this disastrous piece.

You couldn't watch movies like this all the time, because it is quite obnoxious like FitForDanga said. I differ though because I thought this was an extremely interesting, engaging flick because it is a one off. The Letterist philosophy is revolutionary, no matter how cocky Isou himself is. There's too much to say in a short review box like this, but in short, it's not technically enjoyable and is an anti-film. If every movie followed the ideas it'd just be a normal movie, but not every film is.

If you thought Godard was obnoxious, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Isou lauds himself for his own genius, and directly addresses would-be detractors with a series of snide, dismissive responses. His ideas are neither radical nor interesting, but he perceives himself as a ground-breaker and puts himself alongside Bunuel and Sade and Eisenstein. Some of the image-destruction he does here has some artistic merit, but not nearly enough to compensate for how egomaniacal and retarded the rest of it is.

i appreciated the unabashed egotism of the whole enterprise, and i loved the more crazily abstract sequences, but i wish it lost most of the narration, particularly the romantic shit. i get that would defeat half the point, but that just means that half the point is shit.

It took me two days to get through this, and it wasn't very fun. Still, I appreciated certain aspects of it -- the tension between the personal life described in the narrative and the philosophical ideals expounded by the narrator; the physical manipulation of the film; there are even a few interesting ideas tossed around. But not enough that I'm likely to ever be tempted to watch this again.