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Gaumont, the Étrange Anthology

2024

A kaleidoscopic dive into bizarre archival curiosities, equal parts unsettling and delightful, that rewards close attention.

Directed by
Sylvain Perret
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Salvador Dalí, Niki de Saint Phalle, Pierre Vassiliu
Overview
To mark the 30th anniversary of L'Étrange Festival, Gaumont is opening up its archives to offer the best of its most secret, bizarre and crazy images, digitized for the first time. A unique program featuring black magic, surrealistic happenings, world records, the evolution of feminism, wild bets, vanished places, forgotten inventions and other delights.

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Directed by
Sylvain Perret
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Salvador Dalí, Niki de Saint Phalle, Pierre Vassiliu
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Tone
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • media
  • memory
  • identity
  • obsession
Places
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Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • found footage
  • anthology
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Action1
Horror3
Humour5
Realism8
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight4

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
Sylvain Perret
Starring
Salvador Dalí, Niki de Saint Phalle, Pierre Vassiliu, Gaston Defferre, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Madeleine Ozeray, Jean Cau, Dominique Webb
Country
France
Languages
French

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