Louis Aragon Movies

Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.

France, 1920s: An affluent ladies' man finds himself in love with a homely married woman.

An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital.

Jean Ravel's A Distant Gaze (D'un lointain regard) is a 12-minute observance of people on the streets backed by Michel Legrand music.

The young poets, a nucleus of the dada art movement and pioneers of surrealist poetry, sit in a corner reading their works and ringing a bell.

Documentary short made during the Spanish Civil War.

Furtive traces of a visit, a certain February 22, 1962: Buster Keaton.

The poem of the same name by Aragon is read in order to make a statement about the 1940s wartime French Resistance.

Produced in an era before 24-hour programming cycles, Video 50 was initially used as a late night filler on TV stations in Germany, France, Belgium, and Switzerland. Random, surreal, and unexpected, Video 50 resembles the dream cycle of a dormant TV station after it conscious programming has...