The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence HelThe 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.详情
主演：拉斐尔·佩尔索纳,多莉亚·蒂利耶,让娜·巴利巴尔,艾曼纽·德芙,文森特·佩雷斯,安娜·阿尔瓦罗,索菲·吉耶曼,亚历山大·萨洛,玛丽·德纳尔诺,Mélodie Adda,Florence Ben Sadoun,塞尔日·里亚布金,Joniece Jamison,Jelle De Beule,卡琪娅·申库,Elisa Doughty
主演：艾迪·墨菲,贾达·萍克·史密斯,詹姆斯·柯本,拉里·米勒,戴夫·查佩尔,约翰·阿勒斯,贾马尔·米克森,Hamilton von Watts,冀朝理,奎恩·达菲,蒙特尔·乔丹,大卫·莱姆希,查兹·拉马尔·谢泼德,约翰·普洛斯凯,Michael Rothhaar,斯蒂夫·蒙罗埃,Joe Greco,尼克·科科塔基斯,阿列卡夏罗宾逊,丽莎·博伊尔,雅典娜·梅赛,Elliott J. Brown,安尼特·卡尔普,内德·卢克,苏珊·索莫斯,Arthur Tovey
