This film is part of the Jean-Marie Straub/Daniele Huillet season at Close-Up Cinema from May 1st. You can find all the details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Using the fragmentary Kafka novel Amerika as their armature, West German minimalists Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet (Moses and Aaron, From the Cloud to the Resistance) have fashioned a modern parable of immigrant opportunity (1983) based on the Marxian idea that economics, rather than politics or religion or other conceptual inventions, comprises the social bedrock of all human relationships. In contrast to Europe, where ideological “superstructure” still camouflages the economic nature of interclass struggles, Straub and Huillet evidently see the United States as a land of perfect economic clarity, where social relations are matter-of-factly accepted for what they are and everyone's a fully advertent actor in the economic arena (though I suspect we market animals may not share the filmmakers' Realpolitiker enthusiasms for our infrastructural candor). It sounds provocative to say the least, and it's certainly a departure from the interiorized Kafka we're used to on film, however loosely adapted.
Pat Graham
Here (and above) is an extract.
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