视频简介
The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich| his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.。1978年被认为是意大利之恐怖年代。罗马四处遍布示威的学生，而赤军分子之残酷的政治暗杀更是无日无夜。美国记者大卫以旅客身份来到罗马，因为没有工作证，以低薪在美国新闻社工作，藉以找寻资料写一部关于赤军的虚构小说。一次宴会上，大卫碰上美丽而能干的摄影记者爱丽珊。爱在大卫寓所暗格中发现小说手稿，以为是真实报导，逐不理大卫的解释，毅然独身前往调查，终于与大卫齐齐落入赤军手中，发现小说内容竟与赤军策划的...。
