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Original Title :
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
Genre :
Movie / Documentary
Year :
1978
Directror :
Guy Debord
Writer :
Guy Debord
Type :
Movie
Time :
1h 40min
Rating :
8.3/10
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (1978) Online

Uncredited cast:
Duygu Erkan Duygu Erkan - Atesin etrafinda donen kiz (uncredited)

The title of the movie is a palindrome known as "the Devil's verse." It is Latin for "Gyrating, we go into the night and are consumed by fire."

The movie's trailer contains a tongue-in-cheek typewritten phrase signed "God" which says "When I created the world, I knew there would be a movie as offensive as [this] that I would have preferred not to create the world." The trailer goes on the show the phrase being written forward and backward simultaneously on two lines to demonstrate its palindromic nature.


User reviews

Llathidan

Llathidan

A must seen. Debord's anti cinema statement might be considered repellent in his first film (when it is extremist innovation); but in this one, the use of stills upon which the discourse progresses from the evocation of the mechanisms of the society of the spectacle, the alienation by consumption, the oppression of modern society to the deception of imbecile propaganda cinema, transmitting falsehood, to considerations about Paris, the loss of its true spirit and about himself, Guy Debord, is not only an illustration of détournement. It is a beautiful work in which the relation between the image and the narration is incessantly questioned; the two expressions interfere enigmatically, in a secret game of analogies, they collide, complete each others, combine to produce a third element that a linear use of cinematic images produced for the narration would fail to achieve. Not only the political content is pretty up to date but it is simply a beautiful work of modern visual poetry.
Rolling Flipper

Rolling Flipper

Well,I turned on TV last night at 00.35,thrilled by the strange title of what I thought it would've been an interesting weird essai movie.Instead,tons of photograms from unknown movies,commercials cut up from magazines and the author's annoying voice-over explaining the falseness of showbusiness...in French!!!with no subtitles!!!Anyway,buy the book,don't watch the movie!