Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?

What is not well received in traditional cinema these days? Darkness that lasts longer than the blink of an idea and people doing work. Meanwhile, Costa shows the dark interior of an editing room and a couple of French filmmakers-Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub-leaning over the editing table while working on their film Sicily! (1999). It was supposed to be an ordinary educational film, in which the filmmakers-highly regarded by Costa-show what's involved in the transition from an idea to its final form, what's meant by "reduction," and how to cut a film so as to extract psychological elements. Costa says: I made one movie about love. Well, not 'about love' but rather a film in which love is present-in the most powerful way. This is a film with Straub and Huillet. A film about people who I knew loved one another every millisecond of their lives. They lived in a permanent state of being in love, and what's more, in a state of constant exaltation. So, I succeeded in making the most romantic film in the history of cinema, maybe one of a kind, surpassed perhaps only by Chaplin's City Lights.