The team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet has provided the most effective and uncompromising radical voice in modern European cinema. In the opinion of the late critic Serge Daney, they are "the last great filmmakers of the history of modern cinema, perhaps of the history of cinema, period." Based on the destruction of cliché, of ideology, of "dull and boring naturalism," Straub and Huillet's cinema is intended to surprise the viewer, to bring her/him into an active and thinking relationship with the film, and, above all, to become more concretely engaged. Their films are aggressive, essential, and also quite beautiful: finding new forms of sound and image, they give back to the viewer the sheer experience of film as film and of reality as reality, not realism.

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