For Le Genou d'Artemide Jean-Marie Straub once again chose a dialogue by Cesare Pavese. And not just any dialogue, but one that tears open a painful, mystical abyss between love and the one left behind. The film is one single exhilaration and one single rush, a spell and dispersion into nature. It rises from a dark screen and chant to disappear in the woods with the whisper of the wind. It has little to do with what is generally called «cinema». It has one foot in the world beyond. Nature has ten million times the imagination of the most imaginative of artists. (Jean-Marie Straub),咔嚓嚓几声响,脊椎猛的断裂,顾独行再吐出一口鲜血,残存的意识紧紧抱住董无伤,在飞出去之后竟然拼命的翻了一个身,将自己身体放在下面,远远的飞出去,重重的摔在地上…………