"Look at Sainte-Victoire there. These blocks were made of fire and there’s still fire in them." Huillet and Straub's admiration for Cezanne led to two films that are about the challenge to learn how to see: how to see better, how to really see?

The result of these lessons is the experience of a purity that is shocking. Shocking only because one realizes all the sudden that it is not too much, but exactly as it should be.

Beauty appears as a demystification and the dismantling of fear through repitition; as a series of identifications and unexpected encounters that at the first sight may look rather odd but then turn out as honest and true; as the production of continuity by an assemblage of heterogenous elements which have nothing in common.

Or, again by the words of Cezanne: "Let them set the Louvre on fire if they’re afraid of what is beautiful!"