The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillets first feature, from 1965, Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns, suggests the fierce political program evoked their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich B?lls novel Billiards at Half Past Nine, which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartóks music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the storys complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert F?hmel 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 F?hmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Roberts late wife, returns, only to be met 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.南極影視(www.dafengw.com)分享的《沒有和解》,別忘了推薦給你的好友!
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