主演：Giorgio Passerone
导演：让-马里·斯特劳布
简介： 转自：http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/2010/views-from-the-avant-garde-friday-october-1/views-from-the-avant-garde-jean-marie-straub “Theendofparadiseonearth.”—Jean-MarieStraub The33rdverseandlastchantof“paradise”inDante’sDivineComedy.Thefilmstartswithverse67,“Osommaluce…”andcontinuestotheend.“OSommaluce”recallsthefirstwordsutteredbyEmpedoclesinDanièleHuilletandJean-MarieStraub’s1987TheDeathofEmpedocles—“OhimmlischLicht!…”(Oheavenlylight!).ThisextractfromHölderlin’stextisalsoinsertedintotheir1989filmCézanne. “Osommaluce”invokesutopia,orbetterstill“u-topos,”Dante,Holderlin,Cézanne…thecameramovement,recallingSisyphus,inthefilm’slongshots,suggestsitsdifficulty. InOsommaluce,withGiorgioPasserone’sDanteandtheversethatconcludedtheDivineComedy,wefindattheextremityofitspossibilities,thealmosthappyspeechofamanwhohasjustleftearthlyparadise,whotriestofullyrealizethepotentialofhisnature.Betweenthetwowefindthestoryoftheworld.ThefirstJean-MarieStraubfilmshotinHD. SosingulararethetextualworkingmethodsofStraub-Huillet,andnowStraubonhisown,thatitishardtograsphowfarreachingtheyare.Directionisamatterofwordsandspeech,notemotionsandaction.Nothinghappensattheedges,everythingisatthecoreandshinesfromtherealone. Duringtherehearsalswesenseaslowprocessbywhichingredients(atext,actors,anintuition)progresstowardscohesiveness.Itis,forgivethecomparison,likethekneadingofdough.Itistheassemblingandworkingofsomethinguntilitbecomessomethingelse…and,inthiscase,startstoshine.Actuallyit’sverysimple,it’sjustaquestionofopeninguptothelightmaterialthathasbeensealedup.Here,theprocessofkneadingistobringtolifeandthenreveal.Thematerialthatisworkedonisspeech.Soitisspeechthatbecomesvisible—nothingelse.“Logos”comestothecinema. Themiseenscèneofwhatwordsexactly? Theprocessofrevealing,“phainestai”;“phainomenon,”thephenomenon,iswhattakesplace,whatbecomesvisibletotheeye. Is“Straubie”Greece? Thismiseenscèneofspeech,whichgoesbeyondaclosereadingofthechosentext,istrulycomesfromadistantsource.—BarbaraUlrich