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.。除夕之夜，位于东京的高级酒店Avanti进入最紧张忙碌的时刻，倒计时晚会在即。副总管新堂平吉（役所广司 饰）、新堂的助手登纪子（户田惠子 饰）、清洁女工竹本花（松隆子 饰）、酒店小工只野宪二（香取慎吾 饰）等等，员工们无论职位高低，全都马不停蹄，布置准备。与此同时，丑闻缠身的国会议员藤田（佐藤浩市 饰）、夫妇同来却意外遭遇有瓜葛妓女的动物学家堀田（角野卓造 饰）等客人和压力过大企图自杀的演歌名宿德川（西田敏行 饰）、丢失了鸭子拍档而无法演出的腹语师阪田等状况不断地表演人员纷纷进入，加上层出不穷的小事故，令Avanti酒店显得格外嘈杂。 新年到来之前，酒店最恶的两小时，倒计时开始……。