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.。法蒂玛是个单亲妈妈，用打扫卫生的微薄薪水独自带着两个女儿生活在巴黎——15岁的苏阿德正值青春反抗期，18岁的娜斯蕾刚刚开始就读医学院。法蒂玛的法语很差，而生长在法国的女儿们又不和她说阿拉伯语，法蒂玛每天都在为和女儿的交流感觉力不从心。她既为她们感到骄傲又因为交流不够而不禁担心。一天法蒂玛不小心从楼梯上摔倒了不得不卧床休息。休假期间，她开始为女儿用阿拉伯语写信，道出了很多以前很难用法语表达的情感。这种特殊形式的母语对话，也终于拉近了法蒂玛和女儿之间的距离。。
