CONCERNING VENICE (HISTORY LESSONS)

A film by Jean-Marie Straub
2013, 23 minutes
No. 106
Documentary


CONCERNING VENICE (HISTORY LESSONS)
$75.00
Description
Waters lap gently against the shore as Barbara Ulrich recites Maurice Barrès’s essay about the past glories and tenuous fate of the Most Serene Republic, its once faithful and cosmopolitan but now indolent citizens, its visitors both famous (Chateaubriand, Goethe, Napoleon) and ordinary, its courtesans and pigeons, its solidity and dazzling immateriality.