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剧情介绍
The subtitle of Jea n-Marie Str aub and Danièle Huillet ’s first feature, fr om 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns, ” sug gests the fierc e political program e voked by th eir rigorous aesthetic. Th e pretext of the film, set in Cologne , is Heinr ich Böll’s n ovel “Bill iards at Half Past Ni ne, ” whic h they strip do wn to a ha ndful o f stark events and film wi th a confront ational angular ity akin to Bartók’s mus ic that ador ns the sou ndtrack. The subt lest of cues accompany the story’s c omplex fla shbacks. The middle-aged R obert Fähm el tells a young ho tel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich; his el derly fat her, He inrich, an ar chitect f amed fo r a local abbey, recalls the milit arism of t he First Worl d War, when his w ife, Joha nna, incurre d troubl e for insul ting the Kaiser. A third-ge neration Fähm el is co nsidering a rchitecture, j ust as the exiled br other o f Rober t’s late wife , returns, only to be me t by their fo rmer torturer , now a We st German offi cial taking pa rt in a celebr atory parade o f war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the l ayers of history liv e in the p resent tense , which they judge severely. The tamped-down a cting and the spare, tense visual rheto ric suggest a s tate of moral crisis as well as th e response—as much in style as in s ubstance —that i t deman ds.详情
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