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:瑞安·菲利普 艾米丽·霍菲尔 莎拉·坎宁 Sage Linder 贝薇莉·埃利奥特 菲尔·伯克 加布里埃尔·哈辛托 C·托马斯·豪威尔 乔纳森·怀特赛尔 裘德·威尔逊 加菲尔德·威尔逊 Keana Velsen 西蒙·钱 威廉·威尔德 Loreen Regnander Parveen Dosanjh Elliot Drew 安德鲁·科兰特斯 Tommy Europe Karina Frislev
热度:16°C
演员:佩丽冉卡·曹帕拉 卡尔·厄本 特穆拉·莫里森 伊斯梅尔·克鲁斯·科尔多瓦 加里·比德尔 萨菲亚·奥克利-格林 大卫·菲尔德 扎克·莫里斯 格雷格·哈顿 萨钦·乔伯 帕卡罗·姆泽贝 乔丹·穆尼 罗尼·詹姆斯·休斯 莎伦·布鲁克斯 艾克·楚特 乔恩·奎斯蒂德 吉迪恩·姆泽姆贝 拉斯·加拉格尔 维丹滕·奈杜 内斯特·卢卡斯
热度:4°C