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RAYMOND ROUSSEL: THE DAY OF GLORY

RAYMOND ROUSSEL: LE JOURE DE GLOIRE

By Joan BOFILL

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Biography - Completed 2016

A documentary on Raymond Roussel, who inspired the surrealist group, Marcel Proust and countless novelists and artists of today, from Enrique Vila-Matas and Miquel Barceló to Jan Svankmajer.

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Biography, Art - Culture, Documentary
- Countries
- SPAIN
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, CATALAN, SPANISH, CZECH
- Duration
- 68 mn
- Director(s)
- Joan BOFILL
- Writer(s)
- Joan BOFILL
- Producer(s)
- Patricia TEJEIRO
- Synopsis
- Raymond Roussel: Le Jour de Gloire explores the figure of Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), French writer and playwright, is one of the most enigmatic and inspiring in the world of art and literature figures.
  
  A documentary on Raymond Roussel, who inspired the surrealist group, Marcel Proust and countless novelists and artists of today, from Enrique Vila-Matas and Miquel Barceló to Jan Svankmajer. Taking as our point of departure the film ''Impressions de la Haute Mongolie'' (1976), which Salvador Dalí and his director José Montes-Baquer dedicated to Roussel, different specialists including Michel Butor uncover the figure of this writer and poet on a journey through literature, music and the visual arts, taking us from Barcelona to Mallorca, Madrid, Germany, France, Italy, Austria and the US. And from the microscopic ink-impregnated images to the most singular portrait of the human soul.
  With the participation of: Michel Butor, Enrique Vila-Matas, Jan Svankmajer, Alejandro Jodorowsky, John Ashbery, Miquel Barceló, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Lillian Schwartz o Jean-Christophe Averty among others.