吴德华
发表于5分钟前
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: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
陈明宇
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:多萝西亚(安妮特·贝宁 Annette Bening 饰)以一己之力独自抚养儿子杰米(卢卡斯·杰德·祖曼 Lucas Jade Zumann 饰)长大,其中的困苦和辛酸只有她自己知道。杰米深深爱恋着名为朱莉(艾丽·范宁 Elle Fanning 饰)的女孩,然而和很多人都发生过肉体关系的朱莉,却偏偏要在杰米的身上寻求精神的依恋,尽管两人常常同床共枕,却依然艰难维持着纯洁的友情,这让杰米感到十分苦恼。渐渐进入青春期的杰米表现出了一些令多萝西亚感到担心的特质,为了帮助儿子顺利的度过这一特殊时期,多萝西亚找到了房客艾比(格蕾塔·葛韦格 Greta Gerwig 饰),希望她能够给杰米一点帮助。与此同时,多萝西亚一直没有放弃希望,她渴望着能够找到一个靠谱的男人,成为自己的丈夫,亦成为杰米的父亲。