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.。托比·辛普森人到中年，每天的生活被无理取闹的女友和控制欲极强的父亲支配着。他做着不喜欢的工作，收着不喜欢的生日礼物，过着不喜欢的生活，但为了让别人高兴，他只能强颜欢笑。 直到他在生日那天遇到了芳香治疗师勒娜特·赫拉瓦切克。托比的钱包被偷，勒娜特声称自己看到小偷去参加音乐节了。托比无奈改变计划，随勒娜特一起去音乐节上寻找小偷。起初，穿着西装的托比遭到了其他人的排斥，他自己也拒绝融入到音乐节的氛围中去。 勒娜特的一番话唤醒了托比心中被禁锢的自我，他开始享受音乐节带来的无限乐趣，并发现自己坠入情网，爱上了自由洒脱的勒娜特。当托比沉醉在从未体验过的甜蜜中时，他发现勒娜特第二天就会离开，原来自己眼中的真爱不过是一场露水情缘……。
