On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (1965)
- Original title
- De l'assassinat considéré comme un des beaux-arts
- Directed by
- Maurice Boutel
- Genre
- fiction
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man gives a lecture arguing that murder should be viewed as an art form. The film presents his philosophical arguments through staged vignettes.
darkly comicsatiricalcerebralunsettlingstagedabsurdslow-burntheatrical
What happens
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (French: De l'assassinat considéré comme un des beaux-arts) is a 1964 French film directed by Maurice Boutel. It was not cinematically released. It takes its name from Thomas De Quincey's essay On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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