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.。那是一个月黑风高的夜晚,叶云苒被叶雪莹暗中下药,意识模糊之下,与一个陌生人傅北爵,发生了关系。这场突如其来的变故,让叶云苒的世界瞬间崩塌。更让她心寒的是,她的父亲,竟然毫不留情地将她赶到了偏远的乡下,让她在那里独自面对生活的艰辛和困难。。克里斯試圖幫助他的好朋友還清巨額債務,卻反而引來俄羅斯黑手黨和阿爾及利亞黑幫的糾纏。走投無路的克里斯決定放手一搏,冒著啷噹入獄或失去生命的風險,策畫一場驚天大劫案……。