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：加布里埃尔·利昂纳,Matt Mella,Johannes Heinrichs,乔·赫斯特,斯蒂文·麦金托什,卡雅·斯考达里奥,汤姆·麦凯,查理·汉布利特,帕特里克·肯尼迪,Arron Long,里昂·奥肯登,帆足佳佑,汤姆·曼尼恩,阿诺·维亚德,Pâmela Tomé,理查德·克洛西尔,Rob Compton,克里斯蒂安·马尔赫罗斯,Alice Wegmann,Raymond E. Lee
