A Straub-Huillet Companion is a series of short essays on the films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, subject of a Mubi retrospective. Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub's Sicilia! (1999) is showing on Mubi through September 20, 2020.*pour le ouistiti et en souvenir de Barnabé, le chat(for the marmoset and in memory of Barnabé the cat) J.-M.S.— Opening title card of Sicilia! (1999)Straub-Huillet’s adaptation of Elio Vittorini’s Conversations in Sicily (1938-39) has, like this companion, become subtly entwined with my life. Seeing it at age 16, understanding nothing, but tasting the films of Danièle Huillet and her husband for the first time; clearly, that first hint of obsession would turn out to be an abiding one. Another time, excitedly showing it to friends at university and getting my first taste of the frequently lonely, loveless existence of a Straubian, something that puts me in mind of the Raúl...
- 8/20/2020
- MUBI
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