Meins and Jean-Luc Godard or their long-time cameraman Renato Berta. For their part, Straub and Huillet were more often the subject of films by others. Those who have made films about his and her work include Harun Farocki (Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet working on a film based on Franz Kafka's novel Amerika, 1983), Pedro Costa (Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?, 2001) and Peter Nestler (Defense of Time, 2007). Reception Their film has received positive responses from leading film critics: in Germany, for example, those of Enno Patalas, Frieda Grafe, Alexander Kluge, Helmut Färber and Ulrich Gregor, later by Harun Farocki and Hartmut Bitmosky and others. In France, the Cahiers du Cinéma, whose authors Michel Delahaye and Serge Daney, later the film critics Bernard Eisenschitz, François Albera and Benoît Turquety; in Italy the Filmcritica and especially its author Adriano Aprá, who also directed the Pesaro film festival for a long time and played the title role in Straub and Huillet's film Othon (1969). The couple's films also found a fan base in the US early on, thanks in large part to the support of arthouse cinema operator Dan Talbot, film critics Jonathan Rosenbaum and J. Hoberman and curator Richard Roud, who was the long program director of the London and New York film festivals. Filmmakers Pedro Costa, Deborah Stratman, Thom Andersen, and Ted Fendt have cited them as an influence. Despite some positive criticism, their films were and are often met with incomprehension. Especially in the first decades of Straub-Huillet's filmmaking, the accusation of amateurism was often raised against them from this side. A criticism based on the concept of continuity and the narrative conventions of classical cinema as a set of values finds numerous breaks in the Straub-Huillet cinema. Another point of criticism is the alleged lack of emotion in their films. Lecture as well as gestures and facial expressions of the actors are expressionless, anti-dramatic and deliberately boring. The last joint-film by Straub and Huillet, Quei loro incontri, was part of the competition at the 63rd Venice Film Festival in 2006. At the festival, Straub and Huillet were awarded a special prize "for the invention of cinematic language in their entirety." They received late recognition of the film industry by Jury President Catherine Deneuve. But at the award ceremony there was a scandal: Straub and Huillet were not present, instead the actress Giovanna Daddi read a statement