简介：转自：filmlinc/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
简介：电影根据真实事件改编。故事发生在19世纪动荡又混乱的英格兰，布克（西蒙·佩吉 Simon Pegg 饰）和海尔（安迪·瑟金斯 Andy Serkis 饰）是一对盗墓人，他们非法盗取墓穴中值钱的陪葬品，再将其换成数目可观的金钱纳入囊中。陪葬品毕竟有限，盗墓赚钱并不能让他们成为腰缠万贯的富翁，于是，邪恶的两人开始打起了尸体的主意。他们将尸体贩卖给了一个名叫罗伯特（汤姆·威尔金森 Tom Wilkinson 饰）的医生，从中赚取巨额利润，但随着时间的流逝，为数不多的死者已经逐渐无法满足海尔和布克越来越大的胃口，就这样，偷窃尸体的两人成为了制造尸体的两人。短短1年之内，就有17人在海尔和布克的屠刀下丧命，但在行凶作恶的同时，这两人也在向自己的坟墓迈进着。