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.。1，因驾驶失误，富商爱德华（Bruce Payne 饰）的妻子爱玛（Denice D. Lewis 饰）不幸死于车祸，极度伤心和内疚的爱德华通过《死亡之书》的帮助，使爱玛复活。然而事情的发展却出乎他的意料…… 2，疯狂科学家迈登博士（David Warner 饰）躲在寒冷的实验室里，潜心进行他的长寿研究。百年的岁月流逝，他和女助手日久生情，然一场突如其来的火灾摧毁了一切…… 3，夫妻警察在追捕罪犯时走失，莎拉（Signy Coleman 饰）为寻找丈夫保罗（Obba Babatundé 饰）走入一间布满残肢断体的恐怖房间，她的噩梦从此开始…… 本片根据魔幻小说的创始人美国作家霍华德•菲利浦•勒夫卡夫特的作品《死亡之书》中的几则短篇故事改编，并荣获1994年意大利罗马奇幻电影节最佳特效奖、1994年葡萄牙奇幻电影节国际奇幻电影奖最佳特效奖。。