Straub-Huillet Films Movies

A landmark work of symbolistic imagery. The words that the filmmakers speak offscreen are imaginary conversation with Cézanne quoted from a critique by Joachim Gasquet. An exchange of memories spanning over 250 years interweaves everything from the philosophy of Empedocles to excerpts from the...

The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know.

A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne.