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.。世间最珍贵的宝石非钻石莫属，引无数侠盗尽折腰，然而黑钻石的价值更是无可估量。以安东尼为首的侠盗帮正在潜入一幢大厦窃取稀世黑钻石，以交中间人并转卖给神秘买家，而他们的电话却被在另一头的台湾特工苏所窃听，并前来争夺黑钻。令安东尼始料不及的是，黑钻到手却使他们陷入四面楚歌的危险境地，业已谈妥的中间人被苏手刃，各方势力对黑钻又虎视眈眈，钻石的原主人还绑架了他女儿，以要挟他交出钻石，而最关键的钻石却已再度被盗走。如今唯一的办法只有夺回钻石，力量薄弱的安东尼不得不与苏通力合作，然而面对眼前牵一发而动全身的局面，二人能否险中取胜？。
