Film has never seen a collaboration like that between Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, a fiercely intellectual husband-wife duo whose decades-spanning oeuvre aimed to spark a revolution among the masses. Hailed by critics, academics, and filmmakers alike, Straub-Huillet’s collection is at once among cinema’s most pluralistic — spanning shorts and features, documentaries and fiction, contemporary stories and period pieces — and most rigorous, forged by an ascetic and intellectually demanding style. It contains adaptations of Kafka and Brecht, homages to D.W. Griffith, Renoir, and Bresson, and treatises on political matters both current and eternal. Encompassing nearly 50 titles — including works that have largely remained unavailable for decades, and many never before released in the U.S — their entire catalog is now proudly presented by Grasshopper Film.
→ See Jean-Marie Straub’s ten favorite films.
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Jean-Marie Straub Danièle Huillet
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