SPLEEN is a surrealist postcolonial deconstruction of the film noir and silent film genres. It features two interconnected, eternally cursed characters in the Paris underworld — The Stranger (Denis Lavant) and The Arab (Slimane Dazi). Aside from the Camusian allusions, the black-and-white minimalist film is voiced with the fractured poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud.