In general, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
want every projection of Une Visite au Louvre to include both versions,
which are slightly different from each other. But the spectators who
don't wish to, can see just one of the two versions. In accordance with
the authors, the film presented at the Torino Film Festival will be
projected three times, once with the two versions, one after the other,
and another time projecting only Version 2, which will be distributed in
Italy by Lab80 with Italian subtitles.
"A film and a text, the eye (looking) upon various famous painters and
the ear (listening) to comments Cézanne made after a visit to the
Louvre, which were memorized and written down by the young poet Joachim
Gasquet and appeared in a book published in 1921. Danièle Huillet and
Jean-Marie Straub re-wove those words, re-edited the phrases about the
maestros of the Louvre and looked once more at these paintings with a
force of visual penetration and a type of light that captures the
immediate, vital tones of the text, in an interpretation that transforms
them, modifies them, and at the same time, respects their deep meaning
[…]." (E. Bruno)
Biography
film director
Jean-Marie Straub
Jean-Marie Straub (Metz, France, 1933) worked as an assistant to the film directors Robert Bresson, Abel Gance, Jean Renoir and Jacques Rivette. In 1963, he and Danièle Huillet, who became his companion in life and work, made their first film together, Machorka - Muff, based on a story by Heinrich Böll. They made their first feature-length film, Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, in 1968. Since then, they have directed over thirty films, taking on writers like Friedrich Hölderlin and Cesare Pavese. The 2006 Venice Film Festival awarded them a special Lion for innovation in film language.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Machorka - Muff (coregia/codirector Danièle Huillet, cm, 1963), Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (Cronaca di Anna Magdalena Bach, coregia/codirectorDanièle Huillet, 1968), Moses und Aaron (Mosè e Aronne, coregia/codirectorDanièle Huillet, 1975), Dalla nube alla resistenza (coregia/codirector Danièle Huillet, 1979), Der Tod des Empedokles (La morte di Empedocle, coregia/codirector Danièle Huillet, 1987), Lothringen! (coregia/codirectorDanièle Huillet, cm, 1994), Sicilia! (coregia/codirector Danièle Huillet, 1999),Une visite au Louvre (coregia/codirector Danièle Huillet, 2004), Corneille-Brecht (cm, 2009), O somma luce (2010), Jeonju Digital Project 2011 - Un héritier (cm, 2011).
Danièle Huillet
Danièle Huillet was born in Paris on May 1, 1936. She grew up in the country and returned to Paris around 1948. She studied at the Jules Ferry high school. She prepared for the IDHEC, but refused to write about the film Menèges by Yves Allégret, which she held to be unfit for an exam.