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