"Moses and Aaron"
1975
Directed by Jean-Marie Straub/Daniele Huillet

Avant-garde, minimalist, Brechtian, and materialist, the filmic output of Jean-Marie Straub and wife Daniele Huillet is not so much fictional storytelling but a series of beautiful, elliptical, clever, and austere visions composed on almost musical terms. Moses und Aron, a relentless reinterpretation of Arnold Schoenberg's already modernist opera about the life of Moses and the Ten Commandments, is no exception to the filmmakers' aesthetic rules. German with optional English subtitles.  107 minutes.