简介：Characterized by deconstructivism and philosophical references and by briefly exposing the good, bad, and ugly periods of the country's history, this post-modern film portrays the abstract need for guidance of Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall.
简介："Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide"The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport both in their professional and daily lives between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps.The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial." -Steve Grayson"my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty." - Jonathan Rosenbaum
简介：The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements: water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive: Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna.The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator,the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination.Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.
简介：主授英国文学的大学教授玛丽（夏洛特·兰普林 Charlotte Rampling 饰），在其端庄切不可侵犯的外表下，隐藏着沉睡已久的蓬勃欲望。她与丈夫让（布鲁诺·克雷默 Bruno Cremer 饰）几十年的生活平淡如水，波澜不惊。这一切，却被丈夫的失踪击得粉碎。某个海滨的早晨，让独自离开度假小屋，一去不返。在此之后，玛丽似乎竭力控制着自己的情感，她设想丈夫仍在身边，每天陪她逛街、采购、聊天，生活一如既往。不久，一具尸体被打捞上来。玛丽的自我麻痹结束，她开始试图了解丈夫的一切，却发现夫妻俩的隔阂与疏离如此之深。而在这一过程中，关于让的行踪也变得扑朔迷离，或生或死，永无定论……
简介：Claudie, a young French woman, inherits her uncle's property in Algeria, much to the disappointment of her scheming cousins Diane and Manuel. On the ferry she meets and falls for Pierre, an idle young man who has squandered his inheritance and is on his way to beg from Christian, his rich but rough-and-ready uncle, who owns a neighbouring farm to Claudie's. Made to work on the farm by Christian as a loan condition, Pierre is soon a changed man, and proposes to Claudie. But when his Arab friend Zoubir invites the Europeans on a hunting party, Diane and Manuel see their chance to move against their cousin.
简介：理查德（凯文·詹森斯 Kevin Janssens 饰）、斯坦（文森特·科隆布 Vincent Colombe 饰）和迪米特里（纪尧姆·布谢德 Guillaume Bouchède 饰）每年都要在荒漠中集结，进行打猎活动，今年亦是如此，和往年不同的是，这一次，理查德把自己的情妇珍（玛蒂尔达·鲁茨 Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz 饰）也带来了。 珍是一个风情万种美艳不可方物的女人，她的一举一动都让斯坦和迪米特里感到心里痒痒的。第二天早晨，斯坦终于按捺不住强暴了珍。当珍将这件事情告诉理查德之后，后者非但没有替她主持公道，还将她推下悬崖想要毁灭证据包庇好友。命大的珍并没有死，鬼门关里走了一遭之后，她痛定思痛，决心复仇。