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Artemide’s Knee (2008)
Directed by Jean-Marie Straub
Drama, Music · 26m
Mourning the death of his partner and collaborator Danièle Huillet, Straub finds tender mercy in music and nature. Out of the abyss, Kathleen Ferrier sings “The Farewell” from Gustav Mahler’s “The Song of the Earth”, (which the composer wrote in 1909 after the death of his daughter) and Heinrich Schütz’s Lament on the Death of His Wife. The landscape also provides solace: the mountain grove where Endymion pines for his beloved Artemis, “a wild thing, untouchable, mortal,” appears to embody the Japanese concept of ‘mono no aware’ — a wistful acceptance of the fleeting beauty of things.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Jean-Marie Straub
- Screenplay
- Jean-Marie Straub
- Novel
- Cesare Pavese
- Director of Photography
- Renato Berta, Marion Befve, Jean-Paul Toraille
- Original Music Composer
- Gustav Mahler
- Editor
- Nicole Lubtchansky
- Producer
- Martine Marignac
Details
- Original title
- Le Genou d'Artémide
- Release date
- 2008-06-07
- Runtime
- 26m
- Genres
- Drama, Music
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- Italian
- Countries
- France, Italy
- Production
- Pierre Grise Productions