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.。1942年，病中的女作家萧红困在了日军炮火下的香港，年轻的东北作家骆宾基陪在她的身边，萧红向骆宾基讲述了她10年来颠沛流离的写作生涯，以及她和作家萧军、端木蕻良之间的两段不寻常的感情，特别是她与萧军难以忘怀的感情经历。这个生逢战乱，历尽坎坷，向往爱情，充满魅力的女作家深深打动了骆宾基，但此时的萧红已经病入膏肓。骆宾基和外出归来的端木蕻良把萧红送进医院，陪伴她度过了生命中最后的时光……。
