剧情介绍
The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub a nd Danièle Hui llet’s first feature , from 1965 , “Only Viol ence Helps Where Violenc e Reign s, ” suggests the fierce pol itical prog ram evoked by t heir rigorous a esthetic. The pretext of the f ilm, set in Co logne, is Heinrich Böll’ s novel “B illiards at Half Past Ni ne, ” which t hey strip do wn to a ha ndful of sta rk events and film with a c onfrontat ional angular ity aki n to Bartó k’s music th at adorns the soundtra ck. The subt lest of cue s accomp any the stor y’s complex fla shbacks. The m iddle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bel lhop of persecu tions under t he Third Reich; his elderly fa ther, Heinrich , an architect famed for a local abb ey, rec alls the mi litarism of the Fi rst World War, when his w ife, Joha nna, incur red trou ble for insulti ng the Kaiser. A third-gener ation F ähmel i s consi dering architec ture, j ust as the exil ed brothe r of Rob ert’s late wi fe, returns , only to be met by their forme r tortu rer, no w a West Ge rman offic ial taking part in a ce lebratory par ade of war veterans. Straub a nd Huil let make the lay ers of his tory live in the pre sent tense, which the y judge s everely. The t amped-down acting and t he spare, tens e visual rheto ric suggest a state of moral cr isis as we ll as the r esponse—as mu ch in sty le as in subst ance—that it d emands.详情
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