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In a single static shot a man is threatened with death at another's gunpoint.
The Algerian War!
2014 ‘La Guerre d'Algérie !’ Directed by Jean-Marie Straub
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The most compact film I have ever seen - this, THIS is pure fire. Two bodies, a black screen, a color - Straub's shorts from 2013 onwards are like the new Biograph films - cinema 100% on the terms of the creator, no concessions. This is what a weapon really looks like.
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I'm finally beginning to understand: it all hangs on a pun of "guerre" ("war") and "guérir" ("to cure"), for as the book's subtitle explains, a means of resolution to stress, anxiety and depression without medicine or psychoanalysis. War was a false solution, and our rebellious soldier is looking to actually cure those wrongs, without medicine or psychoanalysis. Two "wrongs" don't make a "right"; but instead a "wrong" must be negated, and “only violence helps where violence rules.”
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RIP the greatest duo in cinema history
Cecil's Essential Straub/Huillet boxd.it/jcZKU
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Struggled to find anything about this, so for those who want it:
grasshopperfilm.com/transmissions-straub-war/
Goethe-Institut London:
"In the short film The Algerian War!, intended as a prologue to Communists, Straub reflects upon his own refusal to fight in the Algerian war in the 1950s, via a story written by psychoanalyst Jean Sandretto about a man, who, having fought in a war, is confronted by a ghost of his past. ‘I have come to kill you.’ Straub said, ‘I left because I had Algerian friends, and when the first grenade exploded in Algeria, I thought the Algerians were right. And then I had French acquaintances who came back from there with bowed heads and who were silent, and who we heard six months later had had to participate in torture, which they did, or did not."
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