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.。旅美华侨航夜钜子唐才树携新当选的华埠小姐萝拉（康家珍）赴某国，与该国的皇族之子举行文定之礼，途经台湾顺道访国三天，下榻某观光大饭店。青年梁新彤（谷名伦）刚从新闻学校毕业，就职某报社的实习记者，奉派采访萝拉新闻，计画抢先独家刊出，采访主任鼓励若能顺利完成任务，就能升为正式记者。梁兴冲冲返家抵寓所时，见一蓬发垢面身着睡袍已呈醉态之女郎，瑟缩坐于大门口，状甚可怜。即将女郎扶至室内暂避风寒，等她清醒後，送其返家。第二天唐才树发现该女失踪大为震惊，因碍于颜面未公开发表新闻，只秘密聘请私家侦探寻访，并将事先安排之记者招待会，宣布延後举行。 梁新彤因前一晚受该女郎骚扰，一觉醒来以为已错过预定之记者招待会，心中十分气恼，全部归罪为该名女子，少女默然忍受，新彤只得杜撰采访经过，搪塞了事，因赶往交稿就电话联络妹妹新兰（林青云）来寓所照料。新兰误认少女为哥哥的密友，肆意调侃，经女解释之後，才知道误会，二人年纪相仿谈笑投机，渐成莫逆，新兰乃邀共同参加男友的生日舞会。唐才树等人忧心忡忡，因唐女已失踪一日一夜，迄今消息全无，记者招待会又需改期，若至晚上仍未寻获，明天只得公开发表失踪消息，登报寻找。。A veteran returns home for his father's funeral, only to find himself waging a new war when horrifying secrets come to light.。
