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)
Dialogue Timeline — 1,470 lines
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00:00:18 From the Clouds to the Resistance
00:04:26 Death, which was your courage
00:08:14 You were laughing, Nephele.
00:11:49 From Sisyphus, who enchained the child Thanatos
00:15:03 all happened and it was not dreams.
00:20:18 as about a god.
00:25:00 like the good swimmer in the water
00:33:26 If we want to be frank
00:36:50 Of a woman - she was beautiful, they say -
00:40:33 must first sweat, foam in the sun.
00:43:31 is not only earth but, as I have told you
00:46:40 Father, why is it not raining now?
00:50:01 used to doing good and being well.
00:53:09 maybe didn't come from the country either
00:57:46 they don't speak to each other, they play to each other.
01:01:33 The water carried him down and Dad
01:06:29 died old, very old, on a road
01:10:43 for the two victims.
01:15:01 me so that even you have a future.
01:21:52 You'd like it. There are benches
01:27:41 Then they had weighed the potatoes and the beans, they had come to an agreement
01:31:34 The old women from Morone
01:35:19 if this life didn't end immediately
01:40:18 * in memory of Yvonne, without whom there would have been no Straub-Films at all.