DIALOGUE OF SHADOWS
A film by Jean-Marie Straub
2013, 28 minutes
2013, 28 minutes
No. 105
Narrative
Narrative
Description
Straub’s testament of love was made seven years after the 2006 death of his partner and collaborator Danièle Huillet, and nearly 60 years after they met in Paris and planned to adapt this short story by Georges Bernanos (the author of Diary of a Country Priest and Mouchette).
In the film, two lovers are separated by physical distance but intimately bound by Bach’s Cantata 140 (“Sleepers Wake”), a conspiring of their own voices, and a mutual sense of wounded pride and yearning for “the supreme grace... to love ourselves in all simplicity.”
In the film, two lovers are separated by physical distance but intimately bound by Bach’s Cantata 140 (“Sleepers Wake”), a conspiring of their own voices, and a mutual sense of wounded pride and yearning for “the supreme grace... to love ourselves in all simplicity.”
Reviews
"A beautiful love story." - Brooklyn Magazine
