Sicilia!
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
© Belvafilm
Exiled in New York, a man returns to his native village in Sicily. During his trip, he meets a gallery of characters before talking about his parents' separation with his mother.
With : Gianni Buscarino, Vittorio Vigneri, Angela Nugara
Screenplay : Jean-Marie Straub et Danièle Huillet
Image : William Lubtchansky
Sound : Jacques Ballay, Jean-Pierre Duret
Editing : Jean-Marie Straub et Danièle Huillet
Screenplay : Jean-Marie Straub et Danièle Huillet
Image : William Lubtchansky
Sound : Jacques Ballay, Jean-Pierre Duret
Editing : Jean-Marie Straub et Danièle Huillet
Production : Straub-Huillet, Pierre Grise Productions, Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC)
Distribution: BELVA Film
Distribution: BELVA Film
Based on the dialogues of Elio Vittorini's 1939 novel Conversations in Sicily, “Straub-Huiullet” tell the story of the initiatory journey of a man who sets off in search of his childhood, “not only to find places and the dead, characters, sensations, sounds, smells, questions from when he was seven, and also to understand himself”. Their staging illustrates this in a beautiful and simple way and focuses on traditional gestures: herring to grill in winter, peppers in summer...