Les surréalistes français et le septième art : de l'enthousiasme des premiers temps aux désenchantements successifs

The article deals with the surrealists' enthusiasm for cinema and their successive disavowal.
1) The first part describes the natural affinity between Breton's project and the seventh art: assimilation of images to dream processes, ability to make unconscious or marvellous content exist, poetic force of everyday life leading to the paths of total art. 2) The second part mentions the mistrust of the Surrealists as well as their refusal of narrative evolutions. 3) The conclusion reaffirms, beyond any failure, the exceptional intuition of the nature of cinema by the Surrealists as well as their possible proximity with the theoretical contributions of Gilles Deleuze, undoubtedly the most considerable that have been offered in the French philosophical field.