O somma luce

O somma luceThe lines sta
rt with “O Som
ma Luce”
which is
the ti
tle of the fil
m and also the
67th line o
f the 33r
d canto
in “Pa
radiso” of
Dante’s “D
ivine Com
edy” to the
end of “Paradi
so”. The film i
s completed
with mu
sic and
lines in
stead of emoti
ons and
narratio
ns. This is a
recent
attempt to com
bine fi
lm with
literature. The
film b
egins wit
h a black scre
en and t
he musi
c of Edgard Var
ese. The BGM
is “Deserts”
that was
recorded i
n 1954.
After some mom
ents of
darkness, th
e music
ends and a
middle-aged man
sits on a
hill, re
citing so
mething.
He is Giorg
io Pass
erone, an
Italian
literat
ure profe
ssor, and
he is r
eading out of
the la
st part of ‘P
aradiso’ of Da
nte’s Divine Co
medy. Je
an-Marie Str
aub exp
ressed how he
thinks o
f Dante thr
ough a subt
le accent and d
ialect.
The dir
ector who
had encoded
many great ar
tists and musi
cians including
Bach, comple
te the co
mbination
of Dante an
d Varese, wh
ich could seem
strange.
(Lim Kyun
g Yong)　
　The line
s start
with “O
Somma Luc
e” which i
s the title
of the film an
d also
the 67th
line of the
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