What are modern men?
What are modern men?. With this question posed by a child their parents had the adjustment of one-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg, made by Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, From overnight (1997). Where lies hidden the modernity of this unique marriage of filmmakers? Its modernity lies not in the pomp and virtuosity of the film image, as in Wong Kar Wai and Michael Mann, or debugging and skeletal narrative film by Albert Serra and Lisandro Alonso, or in the formalism poetic and contemplative Gus Van Sant or Tsai Ming Liang, or use labyrinthine narrative structures and sinister as David Lynch or Teresa Villaverde. Anachronism of modernity lies in its Straub not reconciliation with domintantes forms and fashions, the rejection to the homogenization of the film imposed by the market and critical respect with which they approach the film texts, bodies of the actors who play them, to places that serve as stage for the recitation of words of the verses, the direct sounds of music and nature. In his work the aesthetic category disappear an actor, a tree, a rock, a piece of music or a literary text, they are all equally tered with the same respect. Explicit refusal to get what the film has us accustomed , an idealistic image in which a body is as good as another, an accent can replace another without anything being lost. [1] . A film that, like that of Manoel de Oliveira and Marguerite Duras, we talk and not just full time words, word is filmed in where silence takes its due importance because it was the sound which as we invented it Bresson said.
The Cinema of Straub rejected the show and so accustomed to the banality that we have the cartalera and opposes pornography of espectaularización of reality and the feelings that people on television. Escape the recovery of imáganes and is presented as an act of resistance to the oblivion that is the audiovisual project. A film that shows the desired balance between form and thought . A search pensaminento emerging of complicity and support of the measures transposing: Böll, Corneille, Holderlin, Kafka, Duras and Pavese, with those showing a kind of fetishism and vindication of his works unfinished and rejected. Aware that what adiviertera and Bazin: Film is an impure art.
Jean Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet like marriage Schoenberg's opera that led to screen, refuse to surrender and give in to impulses and external pressures, and have been maintained, despite the death of Daniele, undisturbed and independent.
And as he knew that the Godard film is not that: "Where and why put the camera? where and why to start a plane? And where and why finish it? and this seems so trivial but as elementary education is part of the film Jean-Marie Straub and Huillet Danille. And sometimes " A revolution is also put back some very old but forgotten. [2 ]
[1] Zunzunegui, Santos , "The eyes will not close" Drifts in contemporary European cinema, 2007, VV.AA
[2] Phrase Charles Peguy that appeared in Chronica of Anna Magdalena Batch (1967).
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