信长协奏曲

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.。库尔德族少年阿尤（Rojin Younessi 饰）家在两伊边界，他每天带着年幼的妹妹，以及罹患侏儒症的哥哥到混乱的人力市场讨零工补贴家用。某日，他们的父亲误触地雷身亡，哥哥的病已不能再拖下去，妹妹上学又需要练习薄，悲痛的阿尤不得不更加卖力地挣钱，于是他向叔叔借来了骡子，每天在冰天雪地里运货，牲口在上路之前必须喂食掺酒的水激发体力。此时阿尤的叔叔擅自主张将他姐姐嫁给了有钱人当小媳妇，以此换得聘金和哥哥做手术的机会。下嫁当天对方却反悔，只给了一头骡子。一天在运货途中突遇埋伏，所有同行匆忙拉着骡子向回撤，阿尤一个人背着哥哥，面对着眼前醉倒在雪地上的骡子毫无办法，而远处劫匪们正在慢慢逼近……。