Too Early, Too Late
Director Jean-Marie Straub e Danièle Huillet
Countries Egypt, France
Duration 100 min
Synopsis
Discovering this capacity (the art of watch and listen) in one's self is part of the experience the film potentially offers. Is there any other film about the countryside and landscape – barring only special cases as James Benning's work and Snow's La Région centrale (1971 )– in which something is always happening in the shot? It's the absence of plot and characters that causes one's initial feelings of loss, absence and/or boredom; yet once the feel and complexity of these places begin to seep into one's consciousness, without the confusions and distractions of a story or a too-rigid thesis that might regiment or codify them, something at once mysterious and materialistic starts to take place.
Discovering this capacity (the art of watch and listen) in one's self is part of the experience the film potentially offers. Is there any other film about the countryside and landscape – barring only special cases as James Benning's work and Snow's La Région centrale (1971 )– in which something is always happening in the shot? It's the absence of plot and characters that causes one's initial feelings of loss, absence and/or boredom; yet once the feel and complexity of these places begin to seep into one's consciousness, without the confusions and distractions of a story or a too-rigid thesis that might regiment or codify them, something at once mysterious and materialistic starts to take place.