Roland Lethem

Known for DirectingBorn 1942-01-05 (age 84)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 , 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 .Read more

Movies & web series

Gourmandises

Jean-Gina B.

Bunch of Assholes!

Hostel Party

Marilyn's La(te)st Love Song

Le journal de Joseph M.

In Memoriam Alfons Vranckx

Le vampire de la cinémathèque

Le Petit Bonhomme Vert

Pierre

Amer

Pieces of Identity

Le sexe enragé

The Bloodthirsty Fairy

Cinématon

Beef Cattle

Cold Head

The Sufferings of a Wounded Egg

Crime contre le cinéma

EXPRMNTL

Jardins clandestins

2 ou 3 choses que je sais de Joseph Morder

Cinéma

Cinématon XVII

Cocktail Morlock

La Saga de Madiana

Trois pierres

The Crazed Sex of the Bloodthirsty Fairy

Grève et pets

La tête d'un frère

Super bite

Super huître

Comme le temps paxe vite

Le Vice et la Vertu

Thalamus Lives!

Sprookje, of l'homme-objet

Gerda Flower Powers

La ballade des amants maudits

Lili au lit

La Double Insomnie