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1985

Proposta in quattro parti

Directed by Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet

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"D. W. Griffith’s 1909 short film A Corner in Wheat, a Biblical tale of avarice, divine retribution, and the prolonged suffering of the masses, is the prelude to this political film essay. Straub-Huillet offer a dialectical montage of cause (capitalist greed) and effect (the poverty of the farmer and the urban underclass), and draw from excerpts of their earlier work: Moses und Aaron, Fortini/Cani, and From the Cloud to the Resistance." - MoMA

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Jean-Marie Straub Danièle Huillet

ProducerProducer

Enrico Ghezzi

EditorsEditors

Jean-Marie Straub Danièle Huillet

Studio

RAI

Country

Italy

Language

Italian

Alternative Title

Proposition in Four Parts

Genres

TV Movie Documentary

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  • Review by Jake Cole ★★★

    So It’s Come to This: A Straub-Huillet Clip Show

  • Review by Avalyn Wu ★★★ 3

    The Straub-Huillet remix film, oscillating between the heavens and the fields.

    Seen on my computer

  • Review by Adam Cook

    The earth as cemetery. Mind your step.

  • Review by Aksa ★★★

    Throughout the film, Straub and Huillet incorporate excerpts from their earlier cinematic works, such as "Moses und Aaron," "Fortini/Cani," and "From the Cloud to the Resistance." These excerpts likely contribute to the film's overall message and aesthetic, enriching the narrative with their thematic and visual elements. Overall, "A Proposition in Four Parts" appears to be a thought-provoking and politically charged exploration of societal issues, using film as a medium to convey its message and engage the audience in a critical reflection on the consequences of capitalism and social inequality.

  • Review by Diogo Serafim ★★★½

    a straub-huillet masterclass on association and dissociation.

  • Review by Luís Fernando Beloto Cabral ★★★½

    "os poetas
    entre os mortais são aqueles que
    cantando com gravidade
    sentem o rastro dos deuses que se foram
    seguem esse rastro
    e assim traçam para os mortais
    seus irmãos
    o caminho da reviravolta

    mas quem
    entre os mortais
    seria capaz de reconhecer
    tal rastro

    é próprio dos rastros
    não ficarem aparentes
    e eles são sempre
    legados como uma convocação
    que mal se pressente

    ser poeta
    em tempos
    de aflição
    é portanto
    enquanto canta
    ficar atento
    ao rastro
    dos deuses que se foram

    eis por que
    em tempos de escuridão no mundo
    o poeta fala o sagrado"

    Jean-Luc Godard (tradução de Zéfere), História(s) do Cinema, Círculo de Poemas, p.39.

  • Review by Jake Price ★★★

    Damnit. I was really thinking this might be the one where they finally made me communist, but the promise of a real visual dialectic does not play out. The concept is there...but it's honestly kinda drab in execution.

  • Review by Arta ★★★½

    Straub/Huillet take their practice of quotations a step forward: instead of texts, here they quote a whole film by Griffith as well clips from their own work (in anticipation of Communists three decades later). A much more significant film than its reputation would have you believe, especially in its singular approach to a dialectical use (and not just view) of film history itself as the cinematic raw material.

  • Review by Brood_Star ★★½

    DCP, TIFF Lightbox

    Honestly, the Griffith short, which I had not seen before, is probably the best thing about this.

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