Une VISITE AU LOUVRE

The Straubs' body of work takes a zigzag course through the world. Following years of films shot in the open, the forests and hills surrounding the small village of Buti in Tuscany, the directors descend into the catacombs of Paris' Louvre. Here, they take a fictitious walk with Paul Cézanne. The imaginary Cézanne is gruff, funny, quarrelsome and inspiringly meticulous as he comments on his colleagues' paintings. Jean Marie Straub and his allied cameraman Danièle Huillet, who creates time and space, document this visit to the Louvre with the eyes and sensibility of the great painter. The result is an exciting and delightful construction of forms of history, or, even, a historical form.