Jean-Marie

一次出诊中，包法利医生（让-弗朗索瓦·巴尔梅 Jean-François Balmer）和年轻的女孩艾玛（伊莎贝尔·于佩尔 Isabelle Huppert 饰）相遇了，艾玛的纯情和美丽让医生迅速坠入了情网，两人随即结婚。婚后的生活并不如艾玛所幻想的那样充满了乐趣和激情，是帅气的雷翁（卢卡斯·贝尔沃克斯 Lucas Belvaux 饰）的出现让艾玛重新快乐了起来，但他的离开带来的则是更深的痛苦和绝望。富豪鲁道夫（克里斯托弗·马拉沃伊 Christophe Malavoy 饰）贪恋艾玛的美色，给予了她诸多的空洞承诺，而为了配得上鲁道夫，艾玛不惜赊账购入首饰与华服。在约定好私奔的那一天，鲁道夫失约了，大受打击的艾玛一病不起。　　在丈夫的照料下，艾玛渐渐康复，在一场音乐会上，她与雷翁重逢了，与后者打的火热的日子里，艾玛丝毫没有察觉自己早已债台高筑。而当催债的传票出现在眼前时，被所有男人抛弃的艾玛选择了死亡。

故事发生在寻找圣杯的最后几天，当亚瑟王的武士们策马穿过一片充满黑暗、险象环生的丛林，一无所获回到卡默洛特（亚瑟王的宫殿）后，他们的队伍被解散，士气顿失。在他们中间，一位名为兰斯洛特的武士，对此次失败感到深深自责。他认为正是他和格温娜维尔皇后的偷情摧毁了这次神圣的使命。失败的阴影笼罩着一切，辉煌华丽的宫廷呈现出一个即将结束的年代的衰败气象。

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 completed with music and lines instead of emotions and narrations.  This is a recent attempt 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 professor, and he is reading out of the last part of ‘Paradiso’ of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Jean-Marie Straub expressed how he thinks of Dante through a subtle accent and dialect. The director who had encoded many great artists and musicians including Bach, complete the combination of Dante and Varese, which could seem strange. (Lim Kyung Yong)