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.
10.0 理查德·德莱福斯/霍利·亨特/布拉德·约翰逊/约翰·古德曼/奥黛丽·赫本/罗伯茨·布洛瑟姆/凯斯·大卫/Ed Van Nuys/玛格·海根柏格/代尔·戴/布莱恩·黑利/James Lashly/Michael Steve Jones/Kim Robillard/Jim Sparkman/道格·麦克格拉斯/J.D. Souther/David Jackson/David Kitay/Gerry Rothschild/丹·艾克罗伊德/蒂姆·希瑟尔/Joseph Michael Roth/
9.0 Julia McNeal/Ron Kuhlman/Jerry Swindall/Ryan Bohls/詹姆斯·肯恩/丹尼斯·奎德/Ez Perez/Craig Erickson/芭芭拉·阿琳·伍兹/格温妮斯·帕特洛/Joe Berryman/梅格·瑞恩/斯科特·威尔森/James N. Harrell/Gerardo Johnson/Héctor García/贝齐·布兰特利/约翰·浩克斯/维克·波利佐斯/克里斯多夫·莱德尔/乔·史蒂文斯/利比·维拉利/盖尔·克罗纳奥尔/Jim Bob Howard/Bu/