Critics reviews

There is a bottomless, intricate quality to the film that grounds us in the day-to-day gestures and comments of two people, locked into either an artistic or domestic commitment. Even the debate between the small seconds of trimming a clip somehow feels magnificent and epic, even though they are simply determining where to make a cut in their film.

Filming Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet in the editing room, at work on their 1999 drama, "Sicilia!," Pedro Costa offers a revelatory study of the moviemaking process, an artistic manifesto on the wing, and a touching glimpse of an exceptional love story.