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.。墨西哥華雷斯城作為美國的「後院」,接連發生姦殺案,數以百計女工遇害,光天化日被棄屍荒野,兇徒一直逍遙法外。跨國企業只知剝削廉價女工,警界貪贓枉法,政府罔顧人命,惡勢力橫行,只有社區組織與民間電台發出微弱的抗議聲音。女幹探嫉惡如仇勇字當頭,但到底無能為力。初來埗到的少女,來到血汗工廠打工,已一步步走到虎口之下。《神父禁戀》導演根據真實案件改編,沒有讓人血脈賁張的驚慄追兇,更多是沉痛的省思與控訴。格局之精,跟奧斯卡最佳外語片《謎情追兇》(34屆)不遑多讓。。自古能够呼唤传说中的鬼神“饿沙罗鬼”的豪和一族,在现代已是拥有跨国企业的强大财团。而豪和家的四子优四郎是惟一能用“饿沙罗之舞”呼唤鬼神的继承者,他同时也是战斗甲胄“雷电”的驾驶员。在优四郎进行“饿沙罗之舞”仪式之时,脑海中突然出现一名执刀的绿发少女,似曾相识的她是敌方的驾驶员美晴,而两人波澜起伏的命运从此拉开了帷幕……。