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.。戴安娜，紐約股票交易所的高級培訓生；瑟林姆，阿拉伯大亨；戴安娜遭到綁架到瑟林姆設置于北非沙漠，景致秀麗的隱蔽堡壘中，有趣的是，他們的角色互換了起來，戴安娜并不介意與這個迷人的男子同床共枕，誰知瑟林姆的后宮純粹只是用以裝點門面，他對性關係并沒有戴安娜那么隨便。事實上瑟林姆并非是壞人，他綁架戴安娜，完全是爲了一個自己也不信仰的歷史傳統的堅持，他是個完美主義者，一心要融入西方世界......。
