Kommunisten

Kommunisten

2014
Drama
1h 10m
Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time ... , blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) and blocks of language (French, Italian, German), and from this ruckus emerges the history of the world, yes, History with a capital H, and from the same movement, the political hope of its being overtaken. So this is an adventure film, about the Human adventure, still one that is always, in the end, overtaken by Nature. (worldscinema.org)
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Kommunisten

2014
Drama
1h 10m
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Rated 06 Nov 2020
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What sort of communist is Straub? This viewer had trouble discerning meaning in the first sections, beyond an evocation of the fight against oppression and resistance to torture. But in the shift from Fortini, who wants to de-mythologize Nazism while raising the struggle against it to a higher plane, to Hölderlin and Empedocles, the filmmaker seems to want to insist that the materiality of political struggle must also be seen from a cosmic standpoint as opening the path to a sur-real Neue Welt.

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