{"id":28442,"date":"2025-12-27T17:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/?p=28442"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:05:20","slug":"cafe-flesh-de-stephen-sayadian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/2025\/12\/27\/cafe-flesh-de-stephen-sayadian\/","title":{"rendered":"Caf\u00e9 Flesh de Stephen Sayadian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Caf\u00e9 Flesh<\/em><\/strong><strong> (1982) est une \u00e9tranget\u00e9 absolue. Longtemps underground, ce vrai faux film porno est d\u00e9sormais disponible dans la belle collection EPL (\u00e9dition prestige limit\u00e9e) de Carlotta, aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de classiques de Truffaut, Antonioni, Coppola ou Polanski. Et pourquoi pas ? L&rsquo;incroyable r\u00e9putation de <em>Caf\u00e9 Flesh<\/em>, tourn\u00e9 sous pseudonymes par des allum\u00e9s de la contre-culture am\u00e9ricaine des ann\u00e9es 70-80 bien d\u00e9cid\u00e9s \u00e0 dynamiter l&rsquo;industrie du porno de l&rsquo;int\u00e9rieur, n&rsquo;est pas usurp\u00e9e. Il s&rsquo;agit bien d&rsquo;une cr\u00e9ation exp\u00e9rimentale, quelque part entre <em>Eraserhead<\/em> de David Lynch et <em>Cabaret <\/em>de Bob Fosse, d&rsquo;un trip punk futuriste unique en son genre o\u00f9 le consommateur de pornographie est renvoy\u00e9 \u00e0 son statut de voyeur impuissant et de spectateur ali\u00e9n\u00e9, ergotant sur sa condition path\u00e9tique entre deux attractions anti-\u00e9rotiques au possible. <em>Caf\u00e9 Flesh<\/em> n&rsquo;est pas l&rsquo;\u0153uvre de pornocrates mais d&rsquo;artistes de la contre-culture venus du rock, de la litt\u00e9rature gonzo et de la presse satirique, auteurs et graphistes avec la provocation chevill\u00e9e au corps. En r\u00e9alisant <em>Daydreams <\/em>puis <em>Caf\u00e9 Flesh<\/em>, Stephen Sayadian (sous le pseudonyme de <\/strong><strong>Rinse Dream)<\/strong><strong> et son cosc\u00e9nariste Jerry Stahl, associ\u00e9s \u00e0 Francis Delia (alias F.X. Pope, coproducteur et directeur de la photographie) ont le projet bien pr\u00e9cis de r\u00e9aliser un film porno sans d\u00e9sir ni plaisir, dans lequel des \u00e9bats sexuels m\u00e9caniques sont offerts \u00e0 un public de voyeurs rendus impuissants par les radiations d&rsquo;une catastrophe nucl\u00e9aire &#8211; le film se d\u00e9roule enti\u00e8rement dans un abri antiatomique transform\u00e9 en night-club. Travers\u00e9 de visions psych\u00e9d\u00e9liques incongrues \u2013 homme-rat ou homme-crayon en train de forniquer sur sc\u00e8ne, ce film ultra-nihiliste distille un malaise tenace, obs\u00e9dant. Le film fut d\u00e9couvert en VHS en encens\u00e9 par la frange la plus d\u00e9viante de la cin\u00e9philie fran\u00e7aise, dans les ann\u00e9es 1980. On le retrouve aujourd&rsquo;hui en UHD, BR et DVD, en version restaur\u00e9e (nouvelle restauration 4k r\u00e9alis\u00e9e par Daniel Bird et le r\u00e9alisateur Stephen Sayadian), dans une \u00e9dition collector de grande qualit\u00e9. Respect du format &#8211; on a le choix entre le 1.33 d&rsquo;origine (\u00e0 privil\u00e9gier absolument) et une version 16\/9 (1.85), affiches, photos et accompagnement \u00e9ditorial \u00e0 la hauteur de l\u2019objet filmique avec de longs entretiens r\u00e9cents des auteurs, des images de tournages provenant de la t\u00e9l\u00e9 am\u00e9ricaine), un excellent petit livre reprenant sur un mode journalistique les propos de Sayadian et Stahl, et un autre livret-essai avec des contribution fran\u00e7aises et surtout am\u00e9ricaines.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/cafe-flesh-blu-ray-2025-09-16-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/cafe-flesh-blu-ray-2025-09-16-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/cafe-flesh-blu-ray-2025-09-16-2-418x280.jpg 418w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/cafe-flesh-blu-ray-2025-09-16-2-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/cafe-flesh-blu-ray-2025-09-16-2-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/cafe-flesh-blu-ray-2025-09-16-2-580x389.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caf\u00e9 Flesh (1982) est une \u00e9tranget\u00e9 absolue. 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