Country: Italy
Year: 1978
Duration: 105'
While Straub
and Huillet are in
France editing Quei
loro incontri. Gli uomini, gli dei (the last 5 Dialogs with
Leucò), which
was shot once again at Buti (after being represented onstage), we
re-present
their Pavesi-like film, which was made almost 30 years ago, partly as a
“projection” toward the 2006 Festival.
“A
landscape must be discovered, not
filmed. To film a landscape is like raping it. After having discovered
it you
must return to look at it again at least ten times before you have the
right to
film it. And that’s when you discover that there is something
in that
landscape, it’s no longer an empty landscape to be exploited
like a
profit-making source. […] Whoever films a landscape, be it a
ravine or, more in
general, nature, always runs the risk of inflating it, and the sole
duty of anyone
who considers himself an artist is to not bring grist to his own mill.
The mill
of the society we live in is inflation… A director must do
the opposite. And it
was with this in mind that we made our voyage through the
Langhe.” ( J.-M.
Straub)
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.
