24 January 2012

Class Relations (Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, 1984)

Empty spaces in Straub and Huillet's Class Relations:


Preference is definitely given to spaces over characters. People enter and empty spaces and leave them again, the emphasis always on the place. Dave McDougall points out (here) that "Straub is as averse to 'protagonists' as to individual conceptions of history." This reliance on spaces clearly de-emphasizes the notion of a protagonist.

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