烟火晚会

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.。《极乐堡垒》中，莫娜汉饰演的玛吉是一位战功卓著的美军医务兵，同时也是一位单身母亲。她在阿富汗服役15个月后归来，却发现五岁的儿子几乎不认识自己，反而与前夫和他的新女友更加亲近。 就在她接回儿子，慢慢重新建立起亲情的纽带，逐渐适应战地之外的日常生活，还与一位机械师发生浪漫恋情的时候，战事又起，她不顾众人反对，毅然决定重新应征入伍，回归战场。。