Producer
"The word 'revolution' to us Frenchmen is not a vague term. We know that Revolution is a rupture, that Revolution is an Absolute. There is no such thing as a moderate revolution, there is no such thing as a planned revolution—as one speaks of a planned economy. The revolution we are announcing will overturn the entire existing order or it will not take place at all..."
Colette
A fiery and inventive docufiction that portrays two marginal teenagers living in a remote and underserved Canadian village.
Producer
A film in three parts: An aquarium, a man sitting at a table reading various text passages, and a sequence from Jean Renoir’s film LA MARSEILLAISE. This is all from a film by Jean-Marie Straub – about fate, the soul and the cosmos, about the evident nature in which man lives, just like in the aquarium surrounding him. And finally, there’s the nation as a symbol for the community of free people. A Straub film represents a gift that isn’t based on exchange, but rather the opposite of communication. And what could be more beautiful and liberating in life?
Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) and blocks of language (French, Italian, German), and from this ruckus emerges the history of the world, yes, History with a capital H, and from the same movement, the political hope of its being overtaken. So this is an adventure film, about the Human adventure, still one that is always, in the end, overtaken by Nature. (Arnaud Dommerc)
Master filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub continues his exploration of classic texts with this "collaboration" with the great 16th-century writer of the Essais.
A Kafka dialogue is read by actors in Straub's own apartment in Paris.
older woman
An unknown creature has murdered the Creator of Universe and unleashed the ability to produce miracles. This ability is now in the hands of human beings who have driven themselves into destructive envy and the horrible chaos of suddenly becoming Gods themselves.
Baba
Danny is a young man looking for love, and believes becoming a model is the peak of success. He eventually becomes a stripper and learns how that affects his quest for love.
Thanks
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.
Maisie
A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him.
Barbara
A young journalist is unhappy with society and contemplates what he can do about it.
