Communists

JeanMarie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme mixing blocks of time 40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used and what is to be filmed blocks of text Malraux Fortini Vittorini Hölderlin and blocks of language French Italian German and from this ruckus emerges the history of the world yes History with a capital H and from the same movement the political hope of its being overtaken So this is an adventure film about the Human adventure still one that is always in the end overtaken by Nature Arnaud Dommerc