Cézanne - Conversation with Joachim Gasquet

Director: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet

1990 / 60min / 35mm

A lovely tribute to the painter Paul Cézanne, a figure near and dear to Straub and Huillet, which incorporates passages from Gasquet’s book about his long-time friend Paul Cézanne, scenes from Jean Renoir’s film of Madame Bovary, photographs of Cézanne by the painter Maurice Denis, and material shot at Mont Sainte-Victoire—a location of great importance to the painter. Screens with En rachâchant, Straub and Huillet’s charming adaptation of Marguerite Duras’s subversive, anti-authoritarian 1971 children’s story “Ah! Ernesto,” about a precocious nine-year-old boy who refuses to return to school.

“Vecchiali not only produced these two films for Straub and Huillet, but provided catering on several of their other productions—a side business of his Diagonale production company.”—Series curators Bingham Bryant and Graham Carter

Screening preceded by short film, En rachâchant, 1982, 7 min.

Introduction from series curators Bingham Bryant and Graham Carter on Friday, September 1st and and Saturday, September 2nd