Il Se Peut Que la Beauté Ait Renforcé Notre Résolution - Masao Adachi plot
French director Philippe Grandrieux wants to make a series of portraits of politically engaged filmmakers. His film about the Japanese Avant-gardist Masao Adachi (1939) is the first in this series. In the 1960s and 1970s, Adachi was a prominent film critic and underground filmmaker, with experimental films such as Sain (1963) to his credit. He collaborated extensively with contemporary and ally Nagisa Oshima, wrote screenplays for Koji Wakamatsu and made films in the pink genre. Disappointed with Japan's political course, he joined the far-left Japanese Red Army in the early 1970s and went on to make films in Beirut. Grandieux has (sometimes cryptic) conversations with him about film, art and politics and films him in his characteristic style: sometimes out of focus, sometimes under- or overexposed. With a few clips from Adachi's work, such as The Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War from 1971.