Roland Lethem
Date of birth: 1942-01-05
Place of birth: Etterbeek, Belgium
Known for: Directing
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Biography
Roland Lethem (born 1942) is a Belgian filmmaker and writer. Influenced at his beginnings by Buñuel , Cocteau , the surrealists and by the Japanese cinema ( Seijun Suzuki , Ishirō Honda , Kōji Wakamatsu , Yoko Ono ), stunned by the Festival of the experimental film of Knokke in 1967 and by May 1968, Roland Lethem wants to push the people to look at the things of which they say they are freed, it's to say to place them in front of their responsibilities. Even if sometimes the results leaves much to be desired, the idea of each one of his films is seductive and exemplary. A fact is certain, his films are disturbing, they are sometimes unpleasant to look at. The narcissistic and provocative play of the debut turned itself into direct, visual, and verbal insult, and in slandering. His dream was one moment to be able to film the intimate life of the pope or the sexual plays of the Belgian sovereigns. Through violence, pornography and cruelty of some scenes, Roland Lethem is a gentle, generous man with a lot of humor. The work of Roland Lethem evolves, becomes political, ecological. The Ballad of the cursed lovers, 1966 or The Bloodthirsty Fairy, 1968 still tell stories. The Sufferings of a ravaged Egg , 1967, poem of love in several parts (Étoiles/Stars, Corps/Bodies, Hymen/Marriage or Hymen (ambiguous in French), Oeuf/Egg) dedicated to all who conceive and to all who are conceived, irresistibly makes you think at the Histoire de l'oeil (Story of the Eye, 1928) of Georges Bataille .
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Jardins clandestins
2012-08-24
Cold Head
1970-05-01
Shots of a car speeding down the road are intercut with kinky sex flashes (a woman with a whip rides
The Sufferings of a Wounded Egg
1967-12-27
A surrealist saga in four parts: 1.) The credit sequence in which title cards show successively lar
La Double Insomnie
1963-01-01
Roland Lethem's first short film.
In Memoriam Alfons Vranckx
1974-01-01
The last film prohibited by Francisco Franco. Jean-Marie Buchet plays the role of a collector of use
Le sexe enragé
1970-09-16
A bourgeoisie client is transformed into a mouse and cannibalized by a prostitute in flagrante delic
Sprookje, of l'homme-objet
1972-01-01
Gerda Diddens' "Sprookje, of l'homme-objet" and "Découpage" form a very funny double metaphor about
Le Vice et la Vertu
1973-09-07
Super huître
1974-01-01
A cheeky political pamphlet.
Lili au lit
1965-01-01
Who wants to go to bed with Lili?
Grève et pets
1975-01-01
Cocktail Morlock
1981-01-31
Le journal de Joseph M.
2000-02-15
Cinéma
1997-12-12
An ongoing collection of single static shot, mute, showing a view of the cinema facades where Cinema
2 ou 3 choses que je sais de Joseph Morder
2007-11-01
Beef Cattle
1979-01-01
Thomas, in his forties, holds an important post in a slaughterhouse. He is engaged to Marie-Rose, th
Cinématon
1978-12-20
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest
Cinématon XVII
1982-05-04
Reel 17 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
Jean-Gina B.
1984-01-01
This film is based on the true story of Jean Bella, who served as an officer in the Belgian Marine w
EXPRMNTL
2016-10-08
Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Ca
La tête d'un frère
1975-01-01
A film by Roland Lethem
Marilyn's La(te)st Love Song
1978-01-01
Marilyn’s shine flickering into your eyes, Marilyn’s mind melting into your mind, Marilyn’s heart be
Pieces of Identity
1998-09-14
A Congolese king arrives in Brussels in search of his long-lost daughter.
Crime contre le cinéma
2020-02-05
The episode of Gérard Courant's Carnets filmés, Crime contre le cinéma (December 25, 2006 to Decembe