Jean-Marie Straub was a Franco-Swiss director known for austere, unconventional films that often featured long takes and philosophical inquiry, including works like Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach and Too Early / Too Late. I have reviewed 3 of his films on the site so far.
Rating: 2.0★
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet are, depending on your disposition, either two of European cinema's most uncompromising visionaries or two of its most wilfully alienating formalists. Possibly both. The Franco-German couple worked together from the early 1960s until Huillet's death in 2006, producing a
Rating: 3.0★
Jean-Marie Straub is not a filmmaker who makes concessions to comfort, either his own or the audience's. Working for decades alongside his wife and creative partner Danièle Huillet, the Franco-German director built a body of work defined by rigorous formalism, political seriousness, and an almost confrontational
Genre Drama
★★ — Sicily! (1999)
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