贰面虎

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.。讲述一个女性主义童话故事，为《一千零一夜》的新编，聚焦两个相爱的女人Cherry（麦卡·梦露饰）和Hero（艾玛·科林饰）：Cherry与邪恶的男子Jerome（埃米尔·艾尔-马斯里饰）结了婚，Jerome与他的朋友、好色的恶人Manfred（尼古拉斯·加利齐纳饰）打赌，看Manfred能否在100晚之内勾引Cherry，如果Manfred成功，Jerome就把城堡和Cherry送给他。对此毫无兴趣的Cherry与她的女仆兼情人Hero策划了一计：在那100个夜晚，Hero将给Manfred讲述一些吸引人的故事，让Manfred从勾引计划中分心。。