视频简介
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.。新年前夕，威德（Mark Wilson 马克•威尔森 饰）、罗伯特（Pascal Langdale 帕斯科•兰格戴尔 饰）、妮可（Julia Ballard 朱丽娅•贝拉德 饰）等五个互不相识的人相继收到神秘的邀请函，邀请他们参加一个派对，派对地点在一座大厦27层顶楼上。 然而令他们奇怪的是，派对房间被装饰成儿童的派对，每个人都有对应的座位：猪、失败者、双面人、没心肠和情人男孩。是有人恶作剧？还是某种主体派对？正当他们困惑不解之时，危及扑面袭来，一场派对变成了残酷无情的狩猎游戏……。薇瑞拉和丈夫芬克经营着一家不太景气的针织厂，而他们的婚姻也在薇瑞拉撞到丈夫和律师克劳迪亚在办公室偷晴而结束。此时，针织厂负债累累，员工们也忧心忡忡担心要失业，薇瑞拉不得不在有限的时间内为公司拉到订单以维持生计。为了能见到在她去往柏林的途中汽车抛锚，路过的陌生男子伸以援手，两个人的故事也由此展开……。
