转自:http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/2010/views-from-the-avant-garde-friday-october-1/views-from-the-avant-garde-jean-marie-straub “The end of paradise on earth.”—Jean-Marie Straub The 33rd verse and last chant of “paradise” in Dante’s Divine Comedy. The film starts with verse 67, “O somma luce…” and continues to the end. “O Somma luce” recalls the first words uttered by Empedocles in Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s 1987 The Death of Empedocles—“O himmlisch Licht!…” (O heavenly light!). This extract from Hölderlin’s text is also inserted into their 1989 film Cézanne. “O somma luce” invokes utopia, or better still “u-topos,” Dante, Holderlin, Cézanne… the camera movement, recalling Sisyphus, in the film’s long shots, suggests its difficulty. In O somma luce, with Giorgio Passerone’s Dante and the verse that concluded the Divine Comedy, we find at the extremity of its possibilities, the almost happy speech of a man who has just left earthly paradise, who tries to fully realize the potential of his nature. Between the two we find the story of the world. The first Jean-Marie Straub film shot in HD. So singular are the textual working methods of Straub-Huillet, and now Straub on his own, that it is hard to grasp how far reaching they are. Direction is a matter of words and speech, not emotions and action. Nothing happens at the edges, everything is at the core and shines from there alone. During the rehearsals we sense a slow process by which ingredients (a text, actors, an intuition) progress towards cohesiveness. It is, forgive the comparison, like the kneading of dough. It is the assembling and working of something until it becomes something else… and, in this case, starts to shine. Actually it’s very simple, it’s just a question of opening up to the light material that has been sealed up. Here, the process of kneading is to bring to life and then reveal. The material that is worked on is speech. So it is speech that becomes visible—nothing else. “Logos” comes to the cinema. The mise en scène of what words exactly? The process of revealing, “phainestai”; “phainomenon,” the phenomenon, is what take splace, what becomes visible to the eye. Is “Straubie” Greece? This mise en scène of speech, which goes beyond a close reading of the chosen text, is truly comes from a distant source.—Barbara Ulrich 奥特曼最新作品影片包含了罗杰·瓦迪姆、路易·马勒和费德里科·费里尼三位名导所拍摄的三个短片,内容天马行空,环环相扣。 《门泽哲斯坦》:康泰莎女伯爵(简·方达 Jane Fonda 饰)的所爱慕的对象竟然是一匹马!原来,她死去的情人的鬼魂附在了马的身上,引出了一段离奇的人马之恋。 《威廉·威尔逊》:威廉(阿兰·德龙 Alain Delon 饰)发现世间竟然真的有和自己长得一模一样的人,而那个人似乎整日徘徊在他的身边,每当威廉要干一些坏事时,那个人就会出现进行阻止。他真的存在吗?他这么做的意图又是什么呢? 《该死的托比》:为了高额的片酬,托比(特伦斯·斯坦普 Terence Stamp 饰)踏上了前往罗马的旅途,在路上,他遇见了一个可爱的女孩,却想不到,这个女孩竟然是魔鬼的化身。