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.。作家杉本隆治（田村正和 饰）投入极大心血创作的小说《遥远的记忆》得到《金泽每日新闻》文化部长服部（佐野史郎 饰）的盛赞，因此竭力希望作家能延长连载。而为了全身心地创作该作品，杉本专门从东京搬到了金泽。在此期间，居住在东京名叫潮田芳子（广末凉子 饰）致信报社，称因为渴望拜读《遥远的记忆》所以想订阅《金泽每日新闻》。为了证明该读者的存在，杉本的助理（水川麻美 饰）还专门登门拜访，而对方的举止让她颇有些疑惑。未过多久，芳子以小说无聊为由退订报纸。连载正进入高潮，这件事令杉本倍感蹊跷。也许芳子关注的不是小说，而是在那期间发生在金泽的某起事件…… 本片根据日本著名推理作家松本清张的原作改编。。
