Roland Lethem

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1942-01-05 (82 years old)

Place of Birth Etterbeek, Belgium

Roland Lethem

Biography

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 .

Known For

Director

2013
2004
Gourmandises

as Director

1990
Hostel Party

as Director

1981
La Saga de Madiana

as Director

1980
Trois pierres

as Director

1975
1975
Super bite

as Director

1974
Super huître

as Director

1974
1973
1973
Thalamus Lives!

as Director

1971
1970
Le sexe enragé

as Director

1970
Bunch of Assholes!

as Director

1969
1965
Lili au lit

as Director

1963
La Double Insomnie

as Director

Actor

2016
EXPRMNTL

as Himself

2007
2000
Le journal de Joseph M.

as Génie Morlock

1984
Jean-Gina B.

as apostle

1982
Cinématon XVII

as N°161

1981
1979
Beef Cattle

as vagrant

1978
Cinématon

as N°161

1974
1970
Le sexe enragé

as L'homme dans le lit

1970
Cold Head

as Man in orgy

1965
Lili au lit

as The father

Writer

2004
Gourmandises

as Writer

1990
Hostel Party

as Screenplay

1981
1980
Trois pierres

as Writer

1975
1975
Super bite

as Writer

1974
Super huître

as Writer

1973
1970
Le sexe enragé

as Writer

1970
1965
Lili au lit

as Writer

Editor

1977
Pierre

as Editor

1975
Super bite

as Editor

1974
Super huître

as Editor

1970

Producer

1981
La Saga de Madiana

as Producer

1975
Super bite

as Producer

1970
Bunch of Assholes!

as Producer

Crew

2009
Amer

as Thanks

1975
Super bite

as Cinematography