The lines start with “O Somma Luce” which is the title of the film and also the 67th line of the 33rd canto in “Paradiso” of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” to the end of “Paradiso”. The film is completed with music and lines instead of emotions and narrations. This is a recent attempt to combine film with literature. The film begins with a black screen and the music of Edgard Varese. The BGM is “Deserts” that was recorded in 1954. After some moments of darkness, the music ends and a middle-aged man sits on a hill, reciting something. He is Giorgio Passerone, an Italian literature professor, and he is reading out of the last part of ‘Paradiso’ of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Jean-Marie Straub expressed how he thinks of Dante through a subtle accent and dialect. The director who had encoded many great artists and musicians including Bach, complete the combination of Dante and Varese, which could seem strange. (Lim Kyung Yong)
拉斐尔·佩尔索纳,多莉亚·蒂利耶,让娜·巴利巴尔,艾曼纽·德芙,文森特·佩雷斯,安娜·阿尔瓦罗,索菲·吉耶曼,亚历山大·萨洛,玛丽·德纳尔诺,Mélodie Adda,Florence Ben Sadoun,塞尔日·里亚布金,Joniece Jamison,Jelle De Beule,卡琪娅·申库,Elisa Doughty
汤姆·哈迪,李梅,杨雁雁,蒂莫西·奥利芬特,福里斯特·惠特克,贾斯汀·康维尔,奎琳·塞普尔维达,路易斯·古兹曼,米歇尔·沃特森,冯推守,吉姆·凯萨,克塞利亚·门德斯-琼斯,理查德·哈林顿,娜格斯·拉什迪,詹妮弗·阿尔莫,汤姆·吴,杰瑞米·安·琼斯,吉尔·温特尼茨,戈登·亚历山大,戴维·张振熙,杰克·莫里斯,Jon-Scott Clark