From the Cloud to the Resistance

Director: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet

1979 / 111min / DCP

Two texts by Italian poet, essayist, and novelist Cesare Pavese—one, from his Dialogues with Leucò, in which fallen gods debate mankind’s follies; the other, from his The Moon and the Bonfires, recalling the brutal repression of antifascist partisans during World War II—are the foundation of Straub and Huillet’s bifurcated From the Cloud to the Resistance, a work of era-spanning scope and dazzling, sun-dappled pastoral beauty. With En rachâchant, Straub and Huillet’s charming adaptation of Marguerite Duras’s 1971 children’s story Ah! Ernesto.