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.。卡罗尔（泽比纽·扎马洲斯基 Zbigniew Zamachowski饰）藏在妻子多明尼（朱丽·德尔比 Julie Delpy饰）的行李箱中，从波兰偷渡到了法国。天堂般的生活并没有如愿展开，换来的是卡罗尔心中巨大的生活压力。他甚至失去了性能力，被多明尼赶出家门。带着妻子有了外遇的惨痛心情，还有一张美发师证书。卡罗尔决心回到波兰经营事业，再卷土重来。 历尽波折的卡罗尔终于回到自己的国土。他积极上进，忙于谋生，竟在房地产生意中打了漂亮的翻身仗，一举成为百万富翁。此时的他，以为可以让多明尼回到身边，然而妻子的拒绝却令他的自尊大为受伤。于是，卡罗尔决定用一场阴险的计谋，狠狠给妻子一个报复。然而当卡罗尔得逞后，他又能换来什么呢？。
