Thursday, March 21, 2013

Film Wish List: LA CECILIA (1975, Jean-Louis Comolli)


Film Wish List: LA CECILIA (1975, Jean-Louis Comolli)

Jacques Rancière talked about LA CECILIA and WORKERS, PEASANTS (2002, Jean-Marie Straub + Danièle Huillet) in the website Diagonal Thoughts:


" Operai, Contadini speaks about one of the communities we tend to call utopian. However, an utopia is by definition what is destines to give way to the real and end up badly. And in Vittorini’s book things end just like in Comolli’s film: the community explodes as soon as it comes in contact with the external world, the real world, with politics and history. At the end of the book, the hunters arrive and recount what happens in the Italy of 1945: there is the Republic, the elections, and the people will find that it is possibly more interesting than their stories of milk and cheese…"




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