戏曲联唱

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.。1958年的一天，身心都布满创痕的安娜•朱林（弗吉妮•莱德因 Virginie Ledoyen 饰）受雇来到法国位于阿尔卑斯山脚下的圣天使孤儿院担任清洁工作，这座孤儿院有着悠久的历史，二战期间曾作为临时的儿童医院接收了三百多名孩子。如今孩子们随着负责人弗兰卡（Catriona MacColl 饰）前往新的所在，古老的圣天使行将废弃，连同它所隐藏的秘密一同淡出历史。 偌大的孤儿院，除了波兰管家海伦娜外，还有一个疯疯癫癫的小女孩朱蒂丝（洛•多琳 Lou Doillon）。她如鬼魅般游走各个房间，身边仿佛站满看不见身影的孩子。安娜不得已卷入其中，渐渐发现了其中的秘密……。