织田裕二
发表于2分钟前回复 :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
林沐桦
发表于2分钟前回复 :作为两对相处了十余年的朋友,莎利(朱迪·戴维斯 Judy Davis 饰)和杰克(西德尼·波拉克 Sydney Pollack 饰)之间的和平分手让加贝(伍迪·艾伦 Woody Allen 饰)和朱迪(米亚·法罗 Mia Farrow 饰)夫妇感到不可思议。当看见杰克迅速的另结新欢之后,原本心平气和的萨利感到怒不可遏,为了安抚朋友受伤的感情,朱迪将自己的同事麦克尔(连姆·尼森 Liam Neeson 饰)介绍给了她,后者对萨利的狂热却让朱迪的内心里很不是滋味。另一边,才华横溢的学生雷恩(朱丽叶特·刘易斯 Juliette Lewis 饰)吸引了作为老师的加贝的注意,尽管想在婚姻中保持忠诚,但他向往雷恩的心却像一列火车般无法回头。同时,和新欢相处并不愉快的杰克发现自己对旧爱念念不舍,而此时的萨利正和麦克尔打得火热。就是这样四个在职场上春风得意的成年人,他们的感情生活却是一团糟。导演伍迪·艾伦运用大量的对话探讨了夫妻和男女之间感情的始末,将现代人的情感和生活状态描绘的淋漓尽致。