Danièle Huillet

Jean-Marie Straub (b. 1933) and Danièle Huillet (1936–2006) together formed a collaboration that produced some of the most innovative, rigorous, and profoundly moving films in the history of cinema. They are renowned for their meticulous adaptations of works by giants of Western art and literature: Sophocles, Corneille, Bach, Hölderlin, Cézanne, Brecht, Schoenberg, Kafka, Pavese, et al. Straub continues to renew his commitment to subverting cinematic conventions, and maintains the spirit of his exacting partnership with Huillet, broadening a body of work that now includes over fifty films with his most recent, Gens du Lac, released in 2018.