橙草
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:转自:http://www.filmlinc.com/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
黄铠晴
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:故事描述四百年前一个风流才子,命犯桃花,一夕得一荒唐绮梦,初则徵歌逐色,继而沉沦欲海,终至惨遭灭顶 ,于是一惊而醒,上山问道于高僧,但与高僧激辩后, 才子仍深信“人生朝露,及时行乐”的哲学,于是展开 其纵横欲海之“性路历程”。 才子首先娶得美人归,旦旦而伐,夜夜笙歌,知丈人看不过眼,乃以上京赴考为名,却是到处猎艳为实,于是抛弃妻,云游四海。首先在一庸堂钓得一上香美女,几番波折,终诣鱼水之欢。艳妇之夫盛怒之下以牙还牙,将该才子之妻多番淫辱报复,继而将之卖落青楼,为万人荐枕。 及后才子在青楼召妓,巧遇其妻,其妻无颜相见,自缢而死。才子抚尸痛哭,悔之已晚,方知万恶淫为首,轮回报应,半点无差,至此大澈大悟,遁入空门,了此残生。 本片只是平铺直叙了一个“淫人妻女者被人淫”的故事,且在色情之余,着力刻画了未央生与玉香这两个角色。未央生淫了别人的妻子,但是却害怕自己也落入别人的下场,这一点,从片头那段魔幻主义的歌舞就可以看得出来。