The lines start with O Somma Luce which is the title of the film and also the 67th line of the 33rd canto in Paradiso of Dantes Divine Comedy to the end of Paradiso The film is completed with music and lines instead of emotions and narrations This is a recent attempt to combine film with literature The film begins with a black screen and the music of Edgard Varese The BGM is Deserts that was recorded in 1954 After some moments of darkness the music ends and a middleaged man sits on a hill reciting something He is Giorgio Passerone an Italian literature professor and he is reading out of the last part of Paradiso of Dantes Divine Comedy JeanMarie Straub expressed how he thinks of Dante through a subtle accent and dialect The director who had encoded many great artists and musicians including Bach complete the combination of Dante and Varese which could seem strange Lim Kyung Yong
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