Louis Hochet

In the summer of 1986, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub were working in the park of an old Sicilian mansion and in a clearing at the foot of Mount Etna shooting Der Tod des Empedokles. Assistant cameraman Jean-Paul Toraille toyed around, so to speak, with his first video camera, filming the daily work on the set. Now, 24 years later, he was joined by Jean-Marie Straub in editing the material into a film. Anyone who expected the shooting of Les Avatars de la mort d’Empédocle to be an austere affair, an exercise entirely devoid of humour or a Straubian tour de force is proven wrong: so much lightness, joy, concentration, spells of waiting for the sun to come out – and even proper slapstick in between – is hard to find.

엘리오 비토리니의 반 파시스트 소설 `시칠리아에서의 대화`를 각색한 작품. 실베스트로는 어머니를 만나기 위해 고향 시칠리아를 방문한다. 집으로 향하던 길목에서 그는 각양각색의 사람들을 만나고, 그들과 일상적인 대화를 나눈다. 어딘가 부자연스럽지만 위트 있는 대화의 연속이 마치 한 편의 연극 혹은 초기 유성영화를 연상케 한다. 모든 것이 절제된 미니멀한 형식 속에서 간결한 이미지만을 전달하며 관객에게 순수한 ‘영화보기’의 체험을 제공하는, 불가사의한 힘의 영화.

About the history of the French region of Lorraine, called Lothringen in German.

A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian tyrant Creon by burying him.

A landmark work of symbolistic imagery. The words that the filmmakers speak offscreen are imaginary conversation with Cézanne quoted from a critique by Joachim Gasquet. An exchange of memories spanning over 250 years interweaves everything from the philosophy of Empedocles to excerpts from the film Madame Bovary, to extant paintings by Cézanne, to the buildings of the artists’ village at Mont Sainte-Victoire. —ntticc.or.jp

A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich Hölderlin’s play ‘Der Tod Des Empedokles’.

Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedoclus, the legislator in Ancient Greece.

카프카의 유작 「아메리카」를 각색한 작품으로 독일에 거주하던 장 마리 스트라우브와 다니엘 위예가 함께 전성기를 누리던 시절에 만든 걸작이다. 미국으로 간 독일 청년의 모습을 통해 자본화된 문명의 황폐함을 통찰하는 모더니즘 감독들의 모던한 카프카 해석이 돋보이는 영화. (2013년 제14회 전주국제영화제)

"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on three points of view on the same theme: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Eduardo Lourenço, in their own roles, and the one played by Robert Kramer, as an American journalist bent on seeking explanations for the process of the Portuguese Revolution.

Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime, Straub-Huillet filmed this film in France and Egypt during 1980. They reflect on Egypt’s history of peasant struggle and liberation from Western colonization, and link it to class tensions in France shortly before the Revolution of 1789, quoting texts by Engels as well as the pioneering nonfiction film Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895).

The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know.

'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History Lessons and Too Early, Too Late as well. It, too, has two parts—a twentieth-century text and a text regarding the myths of antiquity, each set in the appropriate landscape. Pavese's The Moon and the Bonfires looks back on the violent deaths of Italian anti-Fascist resistance fighters; Dialogues with Leucò is a series of dialogues between heroes and gods, connecting myth and history and returning to an ambiguous stage in the creation of distinctions, such as that between animal and human, which are fundamental to grammar and language itself. Such a juxtaposition of political engagement with profoundly contemplative issues such as myth, nature, and meaning points to the characters of Empedocles and Antigone in the Hölderlin films.' (From "Landscapes of resistance. The German Films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub" by Barton Byg)

A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political and cinematic ambiguities of its own. In outline, the film could not be more straightforward: it offers a recitation of one of Mallarmé’s most celebrated and complex poems (it was his last published work in his own lifetime, appearing in 1897, a year before his death) and proposes a cinematic equivalent for the author’s original experiment with typography and layout by assigning the words to nine different speakers, separating each speaker from the other as she or he speaks, and using slight pauses to correspond with white spaces on the original page.

A familiar Biblical tale transformed into a cinematic opera of seemingly endless possibility. In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate God’s true message and intent for His creations, a conflict that leads their followers towards chaos and sin. Set almost entirely within a Roman amphitheater whose history lends every precise line-reading and gesture, every startling camera move and cut, a totalizing force.

부인과 헤어진 마르코는 운전학원을 운영하며 아들이 하나 딸린 사랑스런 아내 이렌느와 동거중이다. 이렌느는 미장원을 운영하며 마르코와 달콤한 동거 생활을 이어가는데 맞벌이 부부라 가사는 가정부가 돌보고 있어 늘 식사가 부실하다. 그러던 어느 날 마르코의 건강에 이상이 온다. 과로려니하고 들린 병원에서 청천벽력 같은 소리를 듣는다. 남자인 마르코가 임신을 한 것 같다는 것이다. 놀란 마르코 부부는 전문의를 찾아 검진을 하지만 전문의는 오히려 남자의 임신에 대해 인정을 하고 이를 자신의 의학 전문기관을 통해 학술 발표를 하며 이일은 일파만파의 파장을 불러온다. 사회적 센세이션을 일으킨 이 사건으로 당사자인 마르코 부부는 처음엔 당황하고 부끄러워하지만 의학계에서는 오히려 종의 변형을 시대적으로 인정을 한다. 각종 환경의 변화와 음식물, 의약품의 검증되지 않은 부작용등의 사례를 들어 임신원인의 타당성을 규명한다. 이때 때를 맞추어 임산부 전문 용품 회사에서 남성용 임산용품 전속 계약이 들어오고 이들 부부는 어리둥절한 채로 현실을 받아들이게 된다. 사회 저명인사가 되어 학식 있는 사회 유명 인사들의 반 친환경적인 현대인의 환경요건과 종교적 규범까지 연일 토론의 장이 열리고 덩달아 마르코는 나날이 부풀어 오르는 배를 애지중지 잘 보호를 하지만 임신 7개월이 넘어서서 종합 검사 결과 임신이 아님이 밝혀진다. 단지 비만이었던 것이다.

Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court intrigue chronicled in Tacitus’s Histories. The costuming is classical, and the toga-clad, nonprofessional cast performs the drama’s original French text amid the ruins of Rome’s Palatine Hill while the noise of contemporary urban life hums in the background. Their lines are executed with a terrific flatness and frequently through heavy accents; the language in Othon becomes not merely an expression but a thing itself, an element whose plainness here alerts us to qualities of the work that might otherwise be subordinated.

Jonas is on the road to Salina. He stops at a gas station/restaurant and its owner, Mara, is struck by his resemblance to her dead son, Rocky. He decides to stay on and meets Mara's friend Warren and Rocky's sister Billie, but dark facts are to be revealed about the death of Rocky.

나토 사령부에 숨겨져 있는 비자금 수백만불을 탈취하기 위하여 최고의 도둑놈 장 폴 벨몽도와 천재 사기꾼 데이비드 니븐이 만나 벌이는 초특급 코믹 액션 스릴러 !!! 장 폴 벨몽도 주연작중 리오의 사나이와 함께 가장 재미있다는 평가를 받고 있다

A woman seeks to avenge her father's death using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bidding.

Al Pereira, a wise-cracking superspy, investigates a series of assassinations being performed by ruthless killers with bronze skin and horn-rimmed glasses. The trail of these mindless automata leads him to the lair of a seductive villainess who has formulated a computer-powered plot to overthrow the governments of Europe. 'Cartes sur table' is at once an homage to classical Hollywood thrillers and a playful riff on the newly-popular James Bond films.

아내 및 두 아이와 행복한 가정을 꾸려가던 남자 주인공은 우연히 우체국에서 일하는 여자와 만나 사랑에 빠지게 되면서 더 커다란 행복감을 맛보게 된다. 그러나 아내에게 어떤 것도 숨길 수 없는 그는 자신의 외도를 고백하게 되고, 가족 나들이를 나간 날 아내는 호수에 몸을 던져 자살한다. 이전 아내의 자리를 대신하게 된 우체국 여직원은 마치 아무일 없었다는 듯이 집안 일을 하고 아이들을 키운다. 이렇게 새로 구성된 가족이 가을나들이를 나간 모습으로 영화는 끝이 난다.

A story about a widow who begins to receive blackmail letters demanding money from her. This is when everyone in the small town she lives in dismissing her husband.

When Massa is released from prison, he's sure that Luciano, an old freind, is responsible for his incarceration. Massa proceeds to keep watch on Luciano, who has been living with Massa's beloved sister Maria. Feeling doubly betrayed because of his unhealthy adoration for Maria, Massa is determined to get back at Luciano and ends up in a deadly game of roulette.

In this movie based upon Julian Green's novel, we follow Paul's downfall as he is torn between his love for Angele, a local prostitute, as he finds out too late, and Madame Grosgeorge's love for him.

Jean-Paul is a Frenchman who yearns to live in communist Czechoslovakia. His wish is granted when, mistaken as a masseur of a French boating team, he manages to elude the democratic authorities long enough to scamper over the Czech border.

Hunters track a wild boar in the Sologne forests

Mado loves Henry but is coveted by Bob Torquella, a dangerous gangster. The latter, mad with jealousy, is prepared to do everything to get rid of Henri. He and his accomplice involve him in a dangerous robbery. Henri is hurt and arrested by the police. But the young man, a weak character, denounces his accomplices. Two years later, the two gangsters run away from prison. Bob finds that Henri and Mado are husband and wife and have a daughter. In a panic, Henri runs for cover.