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.。也许，这个世界上最难的，就是如何在青春的躁动中维持住一丝平和的宁静……今年刚刚20岁、天真可爱的女大学生艾薇（佐伊·卡赞饰）借着学校放暑假期间，与她的异性好友阿尔（马克·兰道尔饰）一起回到了自己位于布鲁克林的家中，不过由于阿尔始终没有在纽约找到合适的住的地方，所以艾薇请求妈妈（玛丽安·厄巴诺饰）让阿尔住进她们的家里。 表面上看，艾薇俨然是一个青春健康、知书达礼的乖乖女，其实她一直患有癫痫，不过只要她将自己的情绪控制得当，这种病就不会给她的正常生活带来任何实质上的困扰。在纽约炎热的夏日的烘烤之下，让人浮躁的情绪总是在成倍地增长，由于一起共度了整个假期，使得艾薇和阿尔之间的情感维系愈加地浓厚，可是反之，她却发现自己与男朋友卡里（亨特·坎宁饰）的例行电话中，越来越多地出现长时间的沉默，似乎在不断地预示着两个人的关系已经开始变得疏远起来——若有所失的艾薇只能...。