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.。皮耶毫无交代地离开男友,开始漫无方向的公路旅行,靠着交友软体的定位功能,路边野餐、随「欲」而安。而被遗留下来的男友,竟也使用交友软体,追踪失踪的皮耶。伴随阿尔卑斯山光,别有趣味的人物在途中交会,构成这出聆听古典乐曲、阅读兰波诗文、文青同志在约炮神器相遇的奇妙电影。。美術組擔任助理的子淇,這天劇組外景拍攝不順,臨危受命趕回公司拿道具。沒想到,一出發就擦撞計程車,司機嚷嚷著報警、乘客急著接小孩,為了解決眼前窘境,只得開車載乘客一程。但一波未平另波又起,眼前認不出的乘客竟是多年未見、心有隔閡的姊姊。。