From the Clouds to the Resistance
1979 · 104 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 501 VOTES · DIR. Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
Overview
'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History Lessons and Too Early, Too Late as well. It, too, has two parts—a twentieth-century text and a text regarding the myths of antiquity, each set in the appropriate landscape. Pavese's The Moon and the Bonfires looks back on the violent deaths of Italian anti-Fascist resistance fighters; Dialogues with Leucò is a series of dialogues between heroes and gods, connecting myth and history and returning to an ambiguous stage in the creation of distinctions, such as that between animal and human, which are fundamental to grammar and language itself. Such a juxtaposition of political engagement with profoundly contemplative issues such as myth, nature, and meaning points to the characters of Empedocles and Antigone in the Hölderlin films.' (From "Landscapes of resistance. The German Films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub" by Barton Byg)
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00:00:18 From the Clouds to the Resistance
00:04:20 hurled from the rock and not die.
00:08:03 I don't know which. And he seemed to me like that young man who walked through the forest.
00:11:34 then both of them getting old
00:14:44 And it is well. What does it matter?
00:19:37 and call them.
00:24:14 in the ground, there you have the image
00:32:45 a similar or bigger wolf has not been seen.
00:36:04 And however impious he was, whatever crime he had committed
00:39:45 And as you have eaten and drunk with us
00:42:38 All these boors who tire themselves out on the field
00:45:22 I am talking in fact about you. We shall reap, Lityerses.
00:48:54 and when they are about to throw him in the bonfire
00:51:51 When there were no masters and people lived with justice
00:55:57 There were even those who laughed at them.
00:59:57 There should be Communists who aren't ignorant
01:04:52 They awaken the earth.
01:08:44 It as all a situation of guerrilla
01:12:46 are still threatened.
01:17:08 It is not enough for him to have eaten half the house.
01:25:13 I understood what
01:29:06 Then he had opened the knife
01:33:01 "Take some" she had said
01:36:40 and came to the door herself - to shout at the fascists