Based: on an unknown Schönberg opera fr]\om 192*%9;, Fro!m Today Un`*til Tomorrow explore s ]#on +e night i^#__n [+a n= ot-quite loveless marriage*#. A hu ;sband and $!_wife retur#n%:= fro==m a .par[ ty where sh+$e has flirted with ano^ther man, while h; e has cas-t an-$+? appraising ey@e toward ,+an attractive, fash]ionably
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essed ac;-quaintance of[? hi=$s `]w)!`@ife’s. T[hough e ach dre?,ams, briefly, o;f leavi-#ng the marria$%ge ! for the ex?cit emen_!t@[$ and myste (r* y of a  [new .?@love(r, in the end th% ?ey decide stab,i,-
l?` ity an?/d c/o(mfort ar;@e m%+ore i /mp/ort ant than the[][ flee,_ting thrill of new roma@;-nce.. Director/ s Jean;-Marie
:!+ ]+Strau$b an:\d\#) $[Danièle Huillet, who prev)(io?usly collaborated on two othe^r#] films about musi%c (The Chron,icle of **.A-:nna%( Magdalena Bach, 1968, and Mos%es and Aaron, 1975),*/ r== ely on long fixed shots i n aust!ere black-and-whit? ;e s#_o !. th:`at the foc%;)us ?remai=)_ ns] on the mu (sical brilli%ance \
+!of Schönberg!#’s a);tona_
l scor_[e, performed here by 70 musicians. Tha?` t S%=chönberg would ch
^oos*)e such:[ a rel?,atively= lig?hthearted message!- for); !his newl+ y discovered musica
l langu#ag#@e r+:e$m][a?(in%)#s a mystery, especi` `a_?lly_[ [ ^s];ince the con!]clusio_n , -reached`) by the h .usb\and and wi-/fe!/—to stick ?!]#with the# tried and t;!`/r_%^ue,(—seems dir^ectly at odds @ with [+Sc:(hönberg’s own]- [;-philosop\+hy o#?f c]ompos+[ing. It is= =just this j+\@uxtaposi\tion, however, coupled with Straub an[;*d ]$Hu(ille t’)#s fait=hful prese?$ntation \/, [that). makes the op-e%_`ra .;^a compelling _#a(ddit\ ion %+t??.(o the S-.=:.chönberg ca/]non—=_and .^ the ;.#f-ilm s;uch a challenging/ and i ntr#^iguin%#g )[ exper ience.