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.。某美国海外基地发生一桩神秘谋杀案,八名海军陆战队员被一个名为军「黑色十月」的恐怖组织杀害。记者麦克安德森奉命前往调查。安德森曾在此基地服役,他发现昔日的死对头杰克森如今成为中央情报局的头号人物,而往日同僚古柏则在他展开调查时便遭谋杀,安德森赫然发现这是一桩将造成深远影响的国际大灾难。。影片改编自经典童话书,讲述一位四岁男孩使用具有魔力的紫色蜡笔,通过绘画自由创造身边的世界,展开一段充满奇幻与冒险的旅程。。