CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH [DVD] University of Southern California

University of Southern California

Tsai Ming-Liang has made something exquisite and rare: an elegiac

whose work he’d later adapt twice more

they find themselves trapped in an unfamiliar

somniloquies is a descent into the dream-world of our unconscious

CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH [DVD] University of Southern CaliforniaUsing correspondences and texts written by Johann Sebastian Bach, and read by his wife, Anna Magdalena, filmmakers Jean Marie Straub and Danile Huillet have crafted one of the most precise, rewarding biopics ever put to screen. Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bachs intense emotional pull can be understood by its status as a musical film in the most thorough sense: its performancesextended sequences set within the very spaces once occupied by Bach himself,