Straub-Huillet, Brecht and the Two Avant-Gardes Martin Brady October 2019 Communist Utopians: The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet I am unaware of any influence, political or artistic, that I could have exercised on the film industry. Bertolt Brecht, 1947 It’s cinema that invented the Nouveau roman; it clearly invented Brechtism (Chapl...