Film Wish List: LA CECILIA (1975, Jean-Louis Comolli)
Jacques Rancière talked about LA CECILIA and WORKERS, PEASANTS
(2002, Jean-Marie Straub + Danièle Huillet) in the website Diagonal Thoughts:
" Operai, Contadini speaks about one of the communities we tend to call utopian.
However, an utopia is by definition what is destines to give way to the real
and end up badly. And in Vittorini’s book things end just like in Comolli’s
film: the community explodes as soon as it comes in contact with the external
world, the real world, with politics and history. At the end of the book, the
hunters arrive and recount what happens in the Italy of 1945: there is the
Republic, the elections, and the people will find that it is possibly more
interesting than their stories of milk and cheese…"
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