FRANCE/GERMANY, 35MM, 1.37:1, COLOR
DOLBY SR, 48′ (1ST VERSION), 47′ (2ND VERSION)
[Opening credits, black text on white, in French]
– Joachim Gasquet
– Une visite au Louvre
– [Narration] Julie Koltaï
– Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
– [Image] William Lubtchansky, Irina Lubtchansky, Jean-Paul Toraille
– [Lighting] André Atellian, Jim Howe, Marc Romani
– [Image] Renato Berta, Marion Befve
– [Sound] Jean-Pierre Duret, Dimitri Haulet, Gérard Delagarde, Jean-Pierre Laforce
[End credits, black text on white]
– Production: Straub-Huillet, Atopic: Christophe Gougeon
– Centre National de la Cinématographie: thank you Frédéric Mitterand and Hugues Quattrone
– Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains: thank you Alain Fleischer, Frédéric Papon, Christian Châtel
– Fondation de France, Initiatives d’artistes: thank you François Albéra, François Hers, Catia Riccaboni
– Ministere de la Culture, Delegation aux Arts Plastiques: thank you Bernard Blistène, Chantal Soyer, Pascale Cassagneau, Jean-Claude Conesa
– Strandfilm: Dieter Reifarth, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen: Inge Classen
– RAI Tre, Enrico Ghezzi
– thank you, thank you André Goeminne and Anne Pontégnie
– Bertrand Brouder, Cornelia Geiser
– Régis Michel, Catherine Bélanger, Patricia Oranin-Godin, Claire Herlic, Jeanne Latrobe
– Cinecam, Kodak 5247: thank you Nathalie Cikalovski, LTC: Fabrice Dequeant
– Studio: Daniel Dehayes, Jackson: Dolby SR mono
– Fondspa, Luxembourg: Guy Daleidan, thank you Marie-Claude Beaud
– Fonds Images de France, du Ministère des Affaires étrangères
TEXT: Joachim Gasquet, from “Ce qu’il m’a dit …” in Cézanne (Paris: Éditions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921). Includes an unused take of the first shot of Workers, Peasants.
SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH by Misha Donat and Straub, IN GERMAN by Huillet, Peter Kammerer, and Antonia Weiße, IN ITALIAN by Huillet and Romano Guelfi. Both versions of the film are shown one after the other. The first version begins with a title card: “Dominique Païni provoked this film in 1990,” in Jean-Marie Straub’s handwriting and ends with: “Thank you François Albéra, François Hers, Catia Riccaboni.”
FIRST SCREENING: Released in Paris, March 17, 2004; 2005 New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde (October); 2005 London Film Festival (October; both screenings without subtitles).
