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.。清咸丰年间，山西祁县大东家乔致广因生意惨败病重身亡，股东们纷纷上门讨债，家族内部暗流涌动，伺机瓜分家产。危机之下，大太太（娟子 饰）急传在外考取功名的二少爷乔致庸（陈建斌 饰）回家出任新的大东家，并让他斩断与其青梅竹马的江雪瑛（马伊俐 饰）任何联系，迎娶“山西第一抠”之女陆玉菡（蒋勤勤 饰）。乔致庸生性顽劣，根本不想接手生意，但面对族人的跪求，考虑到乔家未来的兴衰勉强就范。穷秀才孙茂才（倪大宏 饰）自觉满腹经纶，见乔家有难自荐上门帮忙，成了乔致庸的军师。上任伊始，乔致庸一行首先赶往包头乔家分号，大刀阔斧地进行了人事调整，他任人为贤的做法很快赢得了众商家的尊崇。从此，一代奇商乔致庸开始了他数十年的风雨历程......。
