Jean-Marie Straub et Danièle Huillet
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet are a couple of French filmmakers. They met in 1954 in Paris and began their joint creation in 1962, until Huillet's death in 2006. They received a Special Lion at the Venice Film Festival for the innovative aspect of their cinematographic language. Straub-Huillet's films deal with philosophy, art and politics. They have created a dense, committed, Marxist and singular work, just like their couple! Since the death of his partner, Jean-Marie Straub continues to direct many films.
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Too Early/Too Late
Duration: 3h30
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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 Enge...
Cézanne - Dialogue avec Joachim Gasquet
Cézanne - Dialogue avec Joachim Gasquet
An exchange of memories spanning over 250 years interweaves everything from the philosophy of Empedocles to excerpts from _Madame Bovary_, to extant paintings by Cézanne, to the buildings of the artist's village at Mont Sainte-Victoire.
Une Visite au Louvre
Promenade dans les allées du Louvre sur un texte du poète et critique d'art Joachim Gasquet rapportant des propos entre lui et Cézanne. On montre successivement une sculpture (*La Victoire de Samothrace*) et quatorze tableaux. Parcourant le musée, Cézanne livre à Joachim Gasquet sa vision de la peinture à travers son regard sur les tableaux, des primitifs italiens à Courbet.
Too Early/Too Late
Duration: 3h30
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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 Enge...
Cézanne - Dialogue avec Joachim Gasquet
Cézanne - Dialogue avec Joachim Gasquet
An exchange of memories spanning over 250 years interweaves everything from the philosophy of Empedocles to excerpts from _Madame Bovary_, to extant paintings by Cézanne, to the buildings of the artist's village at Mont Sainte-Victoire.
Une Visite au Louvre
Promenade dans les allées du Louvre sur un texte du poète et critique d'art Joachim Gasquet rapportant des propos entre lui et Cézanne. On montre successivement une sculpture (*La Victoire de Samothrace*) et quatorze tableaux. Parcourant le musée, Cézanne livre à Joachim Gasquet sa vision de la peinture à travers son regard sur les tableaux, des primitifs italiens à Courbet.
