蒂朵
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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
兄弟联
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:职业杀手Bart(葛民辉饰)技艺高超,雇主很多,收入不俗。他与妻子阿玲(方子璇饰)居于高级住宅区,小日子过的非常滋润。可惜好景不长,金融风暴后夫妻二人陷入经济危机。Bart迫于无奈,便为有钱太太杀人服务,不想有钱太太要求苛刻,要Bart在杀人之余还得拍下杀人过程,方泄心头之恨。Bart深明顾客至上的道理,决定找一个拍档合作。凑巧Bart在酒吧见到导演阿全(张达明饰),二人一拍即合,成为了杀手导演二人组,一时间生意大增,一连串的“买凶拍人”行动随即展开。后来江湖大佬标哥听闻,决定聘Bart及阿全代劳,杀死社团叛徒大雄,并要拍下影带,好让他有真凭实据能向社团交代,稳坐执事人一职。这次买凶拍人行动能否成功呢?