CEZANNE. CONVERSATION WITH JOACHIM GASQUET
A film by Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
1989, 51 minutes
1989, 51 minutes
No. 130
Documentary
Documentary
Description
Joachim Gasquet’s 1921 memoir of his friend Paul Cézanne is an invaluable portrait of the painter’s life and work.
Straub-Huillet use passages from this book, together with pastoral scenes from Jean Renoir’s film adaptation of Madame Bovary and photographs of Cézanne by the painter Maurice Denis, to make a moving and profound personal essay.
Cézanne (along with Giotto) was a guiding light for Straub and Huillet. They shot the film, in part, at Mont Sainte-Victoire, where Cézanne revolutionized the history of art, marveling, “Look at this mountain — it was once fire.”
Straub-Huillet use passages from this book, together with pastoral scenes from Jean Renoir’s film adaptation of Madame Bovary and photographs of Cézanne by the painter Maurice Denis, to make a moving and profound personal essay.
Cézanne (along with Giotto) was a guiding light for Straub and Huillet. They shot the film, in part, at Mont Sainte-Victoire, where Cézanne revolutionized the history of art, marveling, “Look at this mountain — it was once fire.”
