Acéphale is one of the central films of the Zanzibar group, whose members included Regular Lovers director Phillipe Garrel and Daniel Pommereulle, who may be best remembered as a member of the trio at the core of Rohmer's La Collectioneuse. Funded by oil heiress Sylvina Boissannas, the Zanzibar directors were free to pursue their exoticized experimentation and singular visions without commercial concerns. Deval's film can be read as an aftershock of May '68, the film and its band of outsiders seeking to, as Bataille once suggested, cut off the head of man. As one young dandy lectures to an audience: "We must change completely, or cease to exist altogether." But the film tempers this prescription with pessimism: the group of youth the film focuses on spends much of the time imprisoned underground, tossed by society into the "garbage." One individual says, "I swear, in two years time we will have the whole earth in convulsions." The film's style and its characters remain on this side of the threshold of the proposed utopia. But through the smallest of gestures - such as the conclusion, which is nothing more than a smile - the film compellingly gestures toward that which continues to exceed its vision. 


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Vídeo: DVD Rip
Container: MKV
Vídeo Codec: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Vídeo Bitrate: 1700 Kbps
Áudio Codec: AC3
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Resolução: 710 X 464
Aspect Ratio: 1.632
Formato de Tela: Widescreen (16x9)
Frame Rate: 25.000 FPS


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