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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
