Chronique d'Anna-Magdanela Bach

Walker

This is an exceptionally pared down and formally rigorous account of the great composer's life and struggles, both financial and personal.

Seesaw

To see and not see. To hear and not hear. This certainly makes audience fall in sleep but into some kind of hypnotic trance. The composition of the minimal aesthetic stands against any illusionary desire and deliver us the meaning of what is to see and to hear, from the bottom of the earth.

Diderot

Cinematic minimalism at its most extravagant. It's kind of a mystery why this movie's as good as it is. Maybe it shouldn't be. Yet it's as audacious and experimental a musical bio-pic as Todd Haynes' later "I'm Not There"--perhaps even more so--without ever announcing itself as such.

Marc St-Cyr (Death cinéphilia)

With Sicilia! (1999), this is the best introduction to the challenging and imposing oeuvres of Straub-Huillet. (They'are so challenging that i need to re-watch at least 5 times every films i've seen by them, lol.)

Brendan

Revolutionary in its ascetic art. Eyes constantly eschewed from ours only to become revelatory later when they become spontaneous expressions of the definitive ambiguity of the music, the past that is still present. Straub's figures, nothing more than moving statues, create distance as his stubborn direct sound firmly plants a presentness of history, an ability to understand the past but not to feel it.

Odile~

No tiene parangón. La considero una de las más inspiradas de la historia del cine. Destaca, ante todo, por u rigor histórico y sobriedad estética. Una delicia para los sentidos.

Rohith Varma

No words will remotely suffice,ever.

tidal waif

A huge disappointment for those who seek the explanation of major artistic achievement in the socio-political environment of an age, this beautiful film about music situates its vantage point in the epicentre of Bach`s life: music. Wordless majesty is left to speak alone, with occasional interstices of speech. The shift of perspective is uncompromising: music is the grand watercourse of existence, while events of...