Jean-Paul Toraille

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“당신은 이런 이를 본 적이 있나요? 하나의 존재 안에 수많은 것들을 품고 있는 그런 여인을. 그리하여 그녀의 모든 몸짓과 그녀를 향한 모든 생각이, 당신의 대지와 하늘, 말과 기억들, 당신도 모르게 스쳐 지나가는 나날들, 미래들, 확실한 것들, 그리고 결코 당신의 것이 될 수 없을 대지와 하늘에 이르기까지 모든 것들을 무한히 품고 있는 것처럼 여겨지는 그런 이를 본 적이 있나요?”() 잠에서 깨어, 꿈결에 본 여신 아르테미스를 애타게 찾아 헤매던 목동 엔디미온은 한 낯선 이에게 이렇게 말한다. 숨막히게 아름다운 파베세의 문장은2008년 칸영화제 감독주간에서 발표된 장-마리 스트라우브의 단편에서 한 노배우의 입을 통해 읊조려진다. 은 스트라우브 평생의 반려이자 영화적 동지였던 다니엘 위예가 세상을 떠난 후, 스트라우브가 단독으로 연출한 첫 번째 작품이다.

In Italy, immediately subsequent to the war, a group of people who lost all they possessed during the conflict, settle in a village in ruins. They intend to restore the city from the rubble and re-start life, in imitation of the women of Messina who rebuilt their city, destroyed as it was by an earthquake. Oscillating between respect and suspicion, co-existence between group members is tense. Things become complicated when an envoy from the government arrives to say that nothing there belongs to them. The film is a free adaptation of fragments of the novella ‘The Women of Messina’, by Sicilian writer Elio Vittorini.

A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life, and look to protect themselves from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, these men and women build a new rapport between themselves, between sexes, between generations, between social and geographical origins, between political camps.

An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother.

An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is currently dating a children's TV evangelist. Also living at the farm is his layabout daughter and her precocious 8 year old daughter, his would-be artist son, the son's fiancée, and the black maid. Also thrown into the mix is the daughter's ex-husband, a ne-er-do-well who is seeking to get back in his ex-wife's good graces.

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

2차 세계대전 중 파리 근교의 중학교에 새 학기가 시작된다. 12살의 줄리앙은 엄마와 눈물로 헤어지고 기숙사에 들어와 새로 전학 온 장 보네와 침대를 나란히 쓰게 된다. 보네는 영리하며 피아노 연주를 무척 잘했지만 말이 적고 비밀스러워 보여 친구들에게 괴롭힘을 당한다. 그러던 어느 날 산 속에서 보물 찾기를 하다가 둘만 무리와 떨어져 함께 산 속을 방황한 사건 이후 둘은 절친한 사이가 된다. 하지만 시간이 지나면서 줄리앙은 보네가 유태인이고 학교에 숨어 있는 것이라는 사실을 알게 되는데, 어느 날 학교로 게슈타포가 찾아와 검문을 시작한다.

Nina, young girl from the provinces discovering the capital, meets people by chance, and carries out apprenticeship of the theatre and love. Paulot first of all, reassuring figure of an ordinary man, solid as a rock. Then Quentin, a fallen actor tormented by a past drama, violent as lightning. Finally, Scrutzler, an inflexible and exhausted director who chooses Nina, throws her on the stage. A revelation is born through these three meetings. But, it is with herself that Nina has an appointment.

인테리어 장식가인 루이즈는 건축가인 레미와 함께 파리 외곽의 마르네 라 발레에서 지낸다. 레미는 루이즈에게 결혼을 하자고 제안하지만 독립적인 삶을 꿈꾸는 루이즈는 이를 거절한다. 레미에게서 벗어나고 싶은 루이즈는 파리에 거처할 방을 구하고 그의 절친한 친구 옥타브가 그녀의 외출을 돕는다.

The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain. It is the time of Stalin's iron rule in the USSR, and the two agents are suddenly called to Moscow by the KGB. Knowing that they are in trouble for no fault of their own, fear drives one of them to suicide while the other gets his lover and her child and begins a run for his life, knowing that the KGB will never let him go free.