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Straub–Huillet - Wikipedia. Jean-Marie Straub ( French: [stʁob]; 8 January 1933 — 20 November 2022) and Danièle Huillet ( pronounced [ɥijɛ]; 1 May 1936 – 9 October 2006) were a duo of French filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006.
Nov 24, 2022 · Straub-Huillet didn’t have to change a word in Hölderlin’s Antigone for it to be an allegory of today. King Kreon comes questionably to power, attacks Argos to obtain iron, proclaims victory, desecrates sacred traditions and persecutes as terrorists anyone who criticises him.
Hailed by critics, academics, and filmmakers alike, Straub-Huillet’s collection is at once among cinema’s most pluralistic — spanning shorts and features, documentaries and fiction, contemporary stories and period pieces — and most rigorous, forged by an ascetic and intellectually demanding style.
Nov 23, 2022 · In 1958, Straub, refusing to serve in the French military during the Algerian War, went into exile in Germany; Huillet followed him, they married, and they tried and failed to raise money to make...
THE FILMS of Jean-Marie Straub (1933–) and Danièle Huillet (1936–2006) are works of exquisite beauty, startling originality, and exceptional rigor, and they constitute a testing ground for any possible theory on literature’s essential relationship to cinema.
Feb 25, 2019 · The austere films of French husband-and-wife team Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet are difficult. Jean-Luc Godard is challenging, but his films often yield a high degree of pleasure – in their humour, their use of colour and their attraction to beauty. Straub-Huillet, who made more than 25 films together between the early 60s ...
Nov 21, 2022 · French filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub, who was one half of the radical, arthouse filmmaking duo Straub-Huillet with his late wife Danièle Huillet, has died at the age of 89 in Switzerland.
