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.。萨莉亚苏丹（多格雷·斯科特 Dougray Scott 饰）一直无法原谅妻子和自己的弟弟偷情，尽管妻子已经不在人世，但他依然被愤怒和绝望侵扰，整整四十天无法入睡，肉体和精神都已经濒临崩溃的边缘，再这样下去，他不仅无法继续坐在王位上，更有可能连性命都丢掉。 按照律法，萨莉亚苏丹必须马上找到一名女子与其结婚，可是，萨莉亚苏丹早已经失去了对女人的全部信任，他决定在新婚当晚便处死自己的妻子。这个命不久矣的女人便是桑赫莱扎德（米莉·阿威塔尔 Mili Avital 饰）。然而，桑赫莱扎德并没有屈服于命运，而是运用自己会讲故事的天赋，用一个又一个充满了天马行空的奇思妙想的故事留住了自己的性命，并且最终唤起了萨莉亚苏丹对于爱情的渴望。。
