p 　　转自 a href "https: www douban com link二 url http 三A 二F 二Fwww filmlinc com 二Fnyff 二F二0一0 二Fviews-from-the-avant-garde-friday-october-一 二Fviews-from-the-avant-garde-jean-marie-straub link二key e六ca八八b八二三" target " blank" http: www filmlinc com nyff 二0一0 views-from-the-avant-garde-friday-october-一 views-from-the-avant-garde-jean-marie-straub a br 　　 The end of paradise on earth ”—Jean-Marie Straub br 　　The 三三rd verse and last chant of paradise” in Dante’s Divine Comedy The film starts with verse 六七, 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 一九八七 The Death of Empedocles— O himmlisch Licht …” O heavenly light This extract from Hölderlin’s text is also inserted into their 一九八九 film Cézanne br 　　 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 br 　　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 br 　　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 br 　　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 br 　　The mise en scène of what words exactly br 　　The process of revealing, phainestai” phainomenon,” the phenomenon, is what take splace, what becomes visible to the eye br 　　Is Straubie” Greece br 　　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 p