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Cinématon

4.3 average rating
4.3
No Language / 12480 MIN. / 1978

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The Synopsis

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.

The Cast

Gérard CourantAlain-Alcide SudreRose LowderBernard RouéDominique NoguezKaterina ThomadakiMartine ElzingreTeo HernándezGaël BadaudJoseph MorderMartine RoussetMichel NedjarBabette MangolteRaymonde CarascoStéphane MartiBoris LehmanRaphaël BassanMichael SnowLionel SoukazF.J. OssangGina Lola BenzinaErwin HuppertMarie-Noëlle KauffmannMarcel HanounStéphane MonclaireHoward GuttenplanJean DouchetJoseph LoseyYvonne RainerManoel de OliveiraUlrike OttingerDerek JarmanJean-Luc GodardConny SchenkJackie RaynalPaul SharitsStephen DwoskinRobert KramerJean-Michel BouhoursChristian LebratSerge MerlinRoland LethemMarie RivièreImre GyöngyössyDoreen CantoKristin KirkconnelRosettePhilippe GarrelWim WendersNoël GodinMaurice PialatSandrine BonnaireAlf BoldBrigitte SyJakoboisWerner NekesHelmut HerbstGalaxie BarbouthLászló SzabóPeter KubelkaPhilippe SollersFrédéric PardoLucia FioravantiYann BeauvaisPhilipe BordierJean-Marie StraubDanièle HuilletJulie DelpyGabriel MatzneffJames BroughtonJuliet BertoFernando ArrabalJacques MonoryPascal MartinMireille PerrierBéatrice RomandMichel MardoreVolker SchlöndorffMargarethe von TrottaPatrick Poivre d'ArvorTerry GilliamSamuel FullerJessica FordeBarbet SchroederYasmine HauryGabrielle LazureCharlotte VéryYoshishige YoshidaMariola San MartinNicoletta BraschiRoberto BenigniVéronique DelbourgNagisa ŌshimaHarun FarockiSergei ParajanovUltra VioletMike KucharJean RouchBrigitte LahaieTonino De BernardiJonas MekasJean-Jacques LebelAnzhelika NevolinaGaspar NoéPatrick DevalZouzouFrédérique DevauxDaniel PommereulleSerge BardJacques RobiollesMauricio HernándezLeïla Colin-NavaïJaap PietersRobert CahenBenjamin Léon

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