Watch movies directed by Danièle Huillet

Sicily!

A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener.

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6.1

1999 Drama 66 min Play

5

En rachâchant

The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know.

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5

1982 Comedy 7 min Play

7

Too Early/Too Late

Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime, Straub-Huillet filmed this film in France and Egypt during 1980. They reflect on Egypt’s history of peasant struggle and liberation from Western colonization, and link it to class tensions in France shortly before the Revolution of 1789, quoting texts by Engels as well as the pioneering nonfiction film Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895).

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7

1982 Documentary 100 min Play

5

From the Clouds to the Resistance

'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History Lessons and Too Early, Too Late as well. It, too, has two parts—a twentieth-century text and a text regarding the myths of antiquity, each set in the appropriate landscape. Pavese's The Moon and the Bonfires looks back on the violent deaths of Italian anti-Fascist resistance fighters; Dialogues with Leucò is a series of dialogues between heroes and ...

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5

1979 Drama 104 min Play

5.9

Not Reconciled

A story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, treason and revenge. In a brave cinematic game, Heinrich Böll’s story Billiards at Half-Past Nine is split up into cracks, blocks, breaks and sudden turns, as the life story of a German family, covering numerous generations, is propelled forward.

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5.9

1965 Drama 55 min Play

6.1

Machorka-Muff

A satirical attack on West Germany's re-armament and revival of militaristic tradition in the Adenauer era.

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6.1

1963 Comedy 18 min Play