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.。在法国的一个偏远乡村，莱曼家族经营着一个化工厂，不过化工厂正面临着关闭的命运。在这风雨飘摇的时刻，莱曼家族似乎矛盾重重。内森（Grégoire Colin 饰）是莱曼家的女婿，如今他的爱人克莱尔（Bérénice Bejo 饰）怀有身孕，可是各种各样的烦心事让他们很难面对这一切。某天，莱曼家的父亲尼古拉斯（François Levantal 饰）被野兽攻击，身上留有严重的伤痕。为了除掉祸害人的野兽，莱曼家的男人带着枪支结伴进入丛林狩猎。在这里，他们见到了极其恐怖的一幕，田野间四处散落着动物溃败病变的尸体。 不祥的预感在这几名狩猎者的心中升起，他们也慢慢从猎人变成了猎物……。