The read
It runs a compact 1h 10m.
Synopsis
Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) and blocks of language (French, Italian, German), and from this ruckus emerges the history of the world, yes, History with a capital H, and from the same movement, the political hope of its being overtaken. So this is an adventure film, about the Human adventure, still one that is always, in the end, overtaken by Nature.
Ratings
IMDb6/10
11 audience votes
Key crew
- Jean-Marie StraubDirector
- Jean-Marie StraubScreenplay
Cast
- Aldo FruttuosiVentura 'Faccia Cattiva'
- Rosalba CuratolaSiracusa
- Franco FortiniHimself
- Andreas von RauchEmpedokles
- Vladimir BarattaPausanias
- Danièle HuilletLa femme
- Jean-Marie StraubCast
- Barbara UlrichCast
- Gilles PandelCast
- Arnaud DommercCast