Saturday | September 17, 2016 7:00 pm

From the Cloud to the Resistance
(Dalla nube alla resistenza)

Directed by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub.
With Olimpia Carlisi, Guido Lombardi, Gino Felici .
Italy/West Germany, 1979, DCP, color, 105 min.
Italian, Dutch, French, German with English subtitles.
DCP source: Miguel Abreu Gallery

Straub-Huillet’s From the Cloud… bridges history and myth, modernity and antiquity. Based on six mythological encounters in Cesare Pavese’s Dialogues with Leucò, and on Pavese’s last novel, The Moon and the Bonfires, about the savage murders of Italian anti-Fascist resistance fighters during World War II, the film has affinities with History Lessons, Too Early/Too Late, and a series of films of the 2000s in which they returned to Pavese’s Dialogues.