Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet

From their first film in 1963, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet distinguished themselves as two of Europe's most inventive, generous, and uncompromising filmmakers. On the occasion of the first complete North American retrospective of their films in more than two decades, this volume traces the history of their work, placing their films in the specific cultural, linguistic, and critical contexts in which they were produced and providing an account of their distribution and reception in the English-speaking world.