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Roland Lethem
Etterbeek, Belgium
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 , Ishir…
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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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2020
Crime contre le cinéma
Movie
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2016
EXPRMNTL
Movie Himself
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2013
Le Petit Bonhomme Vert
Movie Director
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2012
Jardins clandestins
Movie
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2009
Amer
Movie Thanks
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2007
2 ou 3 choses que je sais de Joseph Morder
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2004
Gourmandises
Movie Writer
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2000
Le journal de Joseph M.
Movie Génie Morlock
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1998
Pieces of Identity
Movie Night Club manager
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1997
Cinéma
Movie
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1990
Hostel Party
Movie Director
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1984
Jean-Gina B.
Movie apostle
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1982
Cinématon XVII
Movie N°161
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1981
Cocktail Morlock
Movie Self
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1981
La Saga de Madiana
Movie Writer
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1980
Trois pierres
Movie Writer
More credits
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1979
Beef Cattle
Movie vagrant
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1979
The Crazed Sex of the Bloodthirsty Fairy
Movie Director
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1978
Cinématon
Movie N°161
- 1978
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1977
Pierre
Movie Editor
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1975
Grève et pets
Movie
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1975
La tête d'un frère
Movie
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1975
Super bite
Movie Director
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1974
In Memoriam Alfons Vranckx
Movie Man in orgy (archive footage)
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1974
Super huître
Movie
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1974
Comme le temps paxe vite
Movie Director
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1973
Le Vice et la Vertu
Movie Man
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1973
Thalamus Lives!
Movie Director
- 1972
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1971
Gerda Flower Powers
Movie Director
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1971
Le vampire de la cinémathèque
Movie Director
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1970
Le sexe enragé
Movie L'homme dans le lit
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1970
Cold Head
Movie Man in orgy
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1970
Bunch of Assholes!
Movie Director
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1969
The Bloodthirsty Fairy
Movie Director
- 1967
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1967
La ballade des amants maudits
Movie Writer
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1965
Lili au lit
Movie The father
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1963
La Double Insomnie
Movie
