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.
2026-02-09 07:17 访客_208*** (22.220.41.74)
看完直呼好家伙,这种画质在手机上看都觉得是种享受,Heinrich在这部片子里很有张力。
2026-02-09 05:18 访客_324*** (67.37.151.164)
整部片子的完成度非常高,原本打算滑走的。
2026-02-09 06:04 访客_816*** (174.27.23.201)
剧情逻辑在线,没有那种强行煽情的情况,妈呀这是什么神仙画质,看Heinrich演戏简直是一种享受。
2026-02-09 03:50 访客_207*** (188.84.213.128)
真心觉得Heinrich在这里面的情绪爆发力太强,画面的通透度极好,看着特别清爽,原本打算滑走的。
2026-02-09 03:36 访客_594*** (226.138.33.238)
实名表扬Heinrich,进步太大了,剧情紧凑不拖沓,真的是良心之作,说真的没让我失望。