剧情介绍
The sub title of J ean-Mari e Straub and Da nièle Huille t’s first featu re, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Wh ere Violence Reigns, ” sugg ests th e fierce political program evoke d by their rigorous aesthetic. Th e pretext of the film, set in Colo gne, is H einrich Bö ll’s no vel “Bi lliards at Half P ast Nine, ” whi ch they strip down to a hand ful of star k events a nd film with a confront ational angularity ak in to Ba rtók’s m usic that ador ns the soundtra ck. The s ubtlest of cues ac company the story’s com plex flashbacks . The mi ddle-aged Rob ert Fähmel tell s a youn g hotel bel lhop of persecutions un der the Thi rd Reich; hi s elderly father, Heinr ich, an arc hitect fame d for a local abbey, recalls th e militaris m of the First World War, when his wi fe, Jo hanna, incurre d troubl e for insult ing the K aiser. A thi rd-generat ion Fähmel is conside ring architec ture, j ust as th e exiled br other of Robert’s late wif e, returns, only to be me t by their former tor turer, no w a West German official tak ing part in a celebrat ory par ade of war ve terans. Strau b and H uillet make t he layers of history live in the present t ense, which they judge severely. The tamped-dow n acting and the spar e, tense visu al rhetoric s uggest a sta te of mor al crisis as we ll as the re sponse—as muc h in style as in substanc e—that it deman ds.详情
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