赵媛媛
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: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 StraubThe 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
余少群
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:远离城市喧嚣的一处住宅里,成年女子安娜·卢克(贝丝·涅斯格拉夫 Beth Riesgraf 饰)和哥哥科纳德(Timothy T. McKinney 饰)。哥哥身患重病,去日无多,他担心妹妹的将来,却无力回天。某个夜晚,科纳德在沉睡中睡去,世上只留安娜一人。因童年的一段经历,安娜患有旷野恐惧症,从而不愿走出家门。在哥哥葬礼当天,独自留在家里的安娜兀自沉浸在悲伤之中。而就在此时,三名陌生男子闯进了她的房子。安娜东躲西藏,好不容易抓住机会可以逃出去,却在临近门口的一刻无法跨越心底的恐惧,最终束手就擒。三个男人为钱而来,他们丝毫没预料到安娜会因恐惧症缺席葬礼而留在家中。这名弱女子,只有瞅准时机保护她最后的领地……