O somma luce

   金马资源网 提供本片资源  The lines start with “O Somma Luce” which is the title of the film and also the 67th line of the 33rd canto in “Paradiso” of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” to the end of “Paradiso”.  The film is comleted with music and lines instead of emotions and narrations.  This is a recent attemt to combine film with literature.　　The film begins with a black screen and the music of Edgard Varese. The BGM is “Deserts” that was recorded in 1954. After some moments of darkness, the music ends and a middle-aged man sits on a hill, reciting something. He is Giorgio Passerone, an Italian literature rofessor, and he is reading out of the last art of ‘Paradiso’ of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Jean-Marie Straub exressed how he thinks of Dante through a subtle accent and dialect. The director who had encoded many great artists and musicians including Bach, comlete the combination of Dante and Varese, which could seem strange. (Lim Kyung Yong)