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.
菅田将晖,井上真央,中村雅俊,三宅健,竹原皮斯托,井下好井,山本浩司,池胁千鹤,小日向文世
李康生,巫建和,林幻梦露,陈雪甄
张子枫,王景春,塔塔,张子贤,王骁,张佳宁,杨恩又,陆思宇,李晓川
Bella Kim,罗什迪·泽姆,朴美贤,柳泰浩,Gong Do-yu,郑庆顺,Minhee Cho,Hui-hyeon Ki,Funny Choi,Inja Lee,Sungchae Choi,Nathalie Levy,Jacques Bourgaux,Soungboom Son,Jaehyeon Lee,Heungjoo Yang,Elisa Dusapin,Numyee Kim
李炳宪,刘亚仁,文晶熙,金嫝勋,玄奉植,郑锡勇,高昌锡
米仓凉子,田中圭,内田有纪,今田美樱,胜村政信,铃木浩介,远藤宪一,岸部一德,西田敏行,染谷将太