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.。西班牙。偏僻贫困、被世人遗忘的维亚尔·德里奥小镇，一天突然来了位政府官员，宣布马歇尔援助团不日即将到达本镇，要当地人以相应的规格接待好美国代表团。消息传开，全镇哗然。各种阶层、各行各业，各种派别的人纷纷做起黄金梦来，每个人都希望从美国佬那里得到自己想得到的东西。然而美国人始终没有光临小镇，人们的幻想和希望都成了泡影。很快，维亚尔·德里奥小镇又恢复到昔日贫困而被人遗忘的状态之中。 影片以辛辣的口吻讽刺了西班牙当时的社会现象和所渭“美援”的骗人之举。影片在嘎纳国际电影节（1953年）获得评委大奖。不仅使贝尔兰加一举成为国际知名导演，还为外国了解西班牙电影，促进西班牙电影业发展开辟了道路。。
