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.。苏珊娜（Kristin Scott Thomas 克里斯汀·斯科特·托马斯 饰）是个拥有优渥生活的中年妇女，她的丈夫是小有名气的牙医，并且正在慢慢涉足政治仕途，她有一双乖巧儿女，刚刚十几岁需要照顾，她自己也在努力重返事业——成为理疗师。这样的生活似乎可以永久持续下去，但一切随着伊万（Sergi López 饰）的到来土崩瓦解。伊万是个随处打工的西班牙建筑工人，帮苏珊娜家扩建工作室时与她相识，很快，苏珊娜对伊万产生一股莫名的欲望，以探伤为借口追随他到西班牙，很快燃起干柴烈火的激情。不可遏制的二人秘密相会，直到苏珊娜决意抛弃妻子与伊万私奔，完全不顾她盛怒的丈夫动用一切政治关系切断她的经济来源……。辛亥年间，日本逼袁世凯（英若诚 饰）签订卖国“二十一”条，袁世凯不顾国人反对，屈从签约。由此引发全国抗日风潮，袁派兵血腥镇压。云南起义将领蔡锷（王心刚 饰）目睹袁世凯倒行逆施，准备进行讨袁起义。名妓小凤仙（张瑜 饰）倾心蔡锷威名，却始终走不进蔡锷内心。一曲“高山流水”琴曲，终吐自己凄惨身世和除贼心愿，彼此览对方为知音。起义前夕，小凤仙为掩护蔡锷不幸入狱。蔡锷在云南打响讨袁第一枪，各省联袂而起，窃国大盗袁世凯郁病而亡，随着讨袁护国战事结束，劳尽心力的蔡锷也客死异乡。正在抚琴的小凤仙望着突然崩断的琴弦，猛然意识到什么......。
