Quei loro incontri = Ces rencontres avec eux production, Straub-Huillet ; film de Danièle Huillet et Jean-Marie Straub

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Huillet, Danièle, filmmaker.

Straub, Jean-Marie, filmmaker.

Grasshopper Film (Firm), publisher, film distributor.

Straub Huillet Films (Firm), production company.

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Fate and fatalism--Drama.

Fate and fatalism.

Mythology, Greek--Drama.

Mythology, Greek.

Genre:

Experimental films

Feature films

Fiction films

Film adaptations

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (68 min., 39 sec.)) sound, color

Edition:

Première version

Other Title:

These encounters of theirs Parallel English title from subtitles:

Ces rencontres avec eux

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] Grasshopper Film [2005]

Language Note:

In Italian, with English subtitles

System Details:

sound

digital

video file

Summary:

In the last feature-length collaboration between Straub and Huillet before Huillet's death in 2006, villagers from across the length of Italy - a peasant, a postmaster, a theater director, a mayor, a rope maker - gather in the Tuscan countryside to recite the five final scenes of Cesare Pavese's Dialogues with Leucò. Published in 1947, just two years after the Holocaust and the Second World War and two years before Pavese's suicide, the Dialogues offer a series of meditations on human destiny, both comical and tragic, between ancient Greek mythological figures. Desperate in their hunger for immortality, mortals are blind to the gift of being human - of their ability to experience joy and suffering; to feel a passing breeze or the touch of another body; to name, remember, and act

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title and statement of responsibility from title screen and end credits (viewed 2024 August 30)

Related Work:

Motion picture adaptation of: Pavese, Cesare. Selections. Dialoghi con Leucò

OCLC:

1455084310

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license