视频简介
本片用一种现实与记忆穿插的方式勾勒了男主人公X（吉奥吉欧•艾伯塔基 Giorgio Albertazzi 饰）与女主人A（德菲因•塞里格 Delphine Seyrig 饰）公剪不断理还乱的情感纠葛。X的记忆中对于巴洛克宫殿里的亭台楼阁如数家珍，在他的描述性旁白中，人们得以感受到他内心巨大的波澜。在剧场舞台上，戏子正在表演着离愁别绪的桥段。观众席上X跟贵妇A对视良久。歇息之时，剧场响起舞曲，X向A邀舞，两人在近距离表达了对彼此的感受。A觉得这个X是个关注自己的陌生人，但是X却讲述了去年与她发生的一段鲜为人知的故事。期间，还穿插了X跟A丈夫M（莎查•皮托夫 Sacha Pitoëff 饰）游戏对决的场景……。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.。