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.。终于，平凡的家庭主妇高野亚纪（菅野美穗 饰）和家人们一起搬进了梦寐以求的高级公寓，哪知道刚刚入住没多久，住在低楼层的他们就已经被人贴上了处于金字塔底层的标签，她每天所要面对的，是居住在拥有更高房价的高楼层太太们，为了不让孩子在学校中被同学孤立，亚纪只得忍气吞声，强颜欢笑，被迫遵行着公寓里独有的各种苛刻的规章制度，更得忍受高楼层太太们颐指气使的使唤和调教。 佐佐木弓子（松岛菜菜子 饰）是住在亚纪楼上的邻居，这位太太不仅外表优雅端庄，更在家中开设了高雅的插花教室，因此颇得大家的喜爱。亚纪对温婉随和的弓子产生了好感和信赖，可一场意外的发生让亚纪渐渐发现，弓子微笑的面具后面，隐藏了一个不为人知的可怕秘密。。
