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.
演员:克里斯蒂安·奥尔特加 罗恩·麦克唐纳 劳拉·弗雷泽 罗斯·曼 艾米·曼森 蕾切尔·杰克逊 尼尔·雷珀 布赖恩·弗格森 凯文·梅因斯 斯特芬·马克尔 乔什·怀特劳 瑞恩·弗莱彻 帕特里克·麦卡林登 马丁·多纳吉 杰玛·麦克艾琳妮
热度:14°C
演员:贾斯蒂斯·史密斯 大卫·艾兰·格里尔 安-李·波根 德鲁·塔弗 麦可拉·沃金丝 艾莎·辛德斯 蒂姆·巴尔茨 鲁伯特·弗兰德 妮可·拜尔 莫里斯·J·欧文 格里高利·詹姆斯·科恩 米娅·福特 托尼·杨布拉德 詹姆斯·E·威尔士 艾伦·科尔曼 文尼·德根纳罗
热度:12°C