Une Visite au Louvre (2004) is a companion film to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s Cézanne (1989). The opening title of the later work indicates that it was inspired by Dominique Païni, then film programmer at the Louvre, in 1990. Like the earlier film, Une Visite au Louvre is also based on Joachim Gasquet’s book, Cézanne (1921), specifically on the chapter entitled “Le Louvre,” which recounts Cézanne’s visit to the Louvre, accompanied by the young Gasquet.
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“Where, during this "visit to the Louvre", fifteen years after Cézanne (1989), is the painter whom Gilles Deleuze called "the Straubs' master"? He is neither in the museum nor the series of paintings that make up this particular visit. Yet he occupies a central place through the text that a voice-over reads aloud; a material that could not be more impure, composed of memories, perforated with borrowed quotations, invented expressions, and passages of pure fiction in indirect style.”
Antoine Thirion1
- 1Antoine Thirion, "Une visite au Louvre," Balthazar, 2023. Republished on Sabzian as “Une visite au Louvre (2004, 47 min.)”, 25 October 2023.
