Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice (1977)
A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political and cinematic ambiguities of its own. In outline, the film could not be more straightforward: it offers a recitation of one of Mallarmé’s most celebrated and complex poems (it was his last published work in his own lifetime, appearing in 1897, a year before his death) and proposes a cinematic equivalent for the author’s original experiment with typography and layout by assigning the words to nine different speakers, separating each speaker from the other as she or he speaks, and using slight pauses to correspond with white spaces on the original page.
Directors:
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub.
Writers:
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet.
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Helmut Färber as (Re)citer |
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Michel Delahaye as (Re)citer |
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Georges Goldfayn as (Re)citer |
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Danièle Huillet as (Re)citer |
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Manfred Blank as (Re)citer |
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Marilù Parolini as (Re)citer |
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Aksar Khaled as (Re)citer |
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Andrea Spingler as (Re)citer |
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Dominique Villain as (Re)citer |
| Directing | Danièle Huillet | Director |
| Directing | Jean-Marie Straub | Director |
| Editing | Danièle Huillet | Editor |
| Editing | Jean-Marie Straub | Editor |
| Sound | Louis Hochet | Sound Mixer |
| Camera | William Lubtchansky | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Alain Donavy | Sound Recordist |
| Writing | Stéphane Mallarmé | Author |
| Writing | Jean-Marie Straub | Screenplay |
| Writing | Danièle Huillet | Screenplay |
| Camera | Dominique Chapuis | Director of Photography |
