Les têtes interverties (1957)
- Original title
- La cravate
- Directed by
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Genre
- fantasy film, silent film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 20 min
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 58 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A silent mime film based on a novella by Thomas Mann. It follows a strange tale involving the swapping of heads between characters.
silentstylizedwhimsicaldarkly comicabstractminimalistoffbeatcerebral
What happens
Les têtes interverties, also known as La cravate, The Transposed Heads and The Severed Heads, is a 1957 French short film written and directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Saul Gilbert, and Ruth Michelly. Shot between 1953 and 1957, the film is a mime adaptation of Thomas Mann's 1940 novella The Transposed Heads (Die vertauschten Köpfe). The film stars the surreal humorist Raymond Devos as well as Jodorowsky himself. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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