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.。《窈窕马戏》以16毫米胶片拍摄，讲述一位女性拟音艺术家为驯马主题广告服务过程中，逐渐发现自我身体的扭变，并与一位植物学家缔结复杂的情欲权力关系。 导演安·欧伦如此概括本片：“这是一封写给所有被低估的电影魔术师的情书，也是围绕差异性展开的一次嬉戏的庆典。藉此良机，观众将得以尝试以肉体来观看、以双眼来感知。”。A psychopathic plastic surgeon transforms a young accident victim into the spitting image of his missing daughter……。
