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.。和蔼善良的弗兰克·朗福勋爵（Jim Broadbent 饰）是英国政府上议院的领袖，同时也是探监慈善基金的积极倡导者。在他的帮助下，无数罪行累累的犯人幡然醒悟，痛改前非，迎来了崭新的人生。就在1965年，一连串令人发指的凶杀案震惊全英。年轻男子伊恩·布莱迪（Andy Serkis 饰）和女友迈拉·欣德丽（Samantha Morton 饰）残忍杀害了数名儿童，其手段之恶毒令人不忍卒睹。二人落网伏法后，分别被判处无期徒刑。此后不久，欣德丽邀请朗福勋爵探监，希望得到帮助。在多次书信和当面交流后，朗福相信欣德丽已真心悔过。虽然面临着来自政府和民众舆论的压力，但他仍决定赌上自己的名誉去为欣德丽争取假释的机会…… 本片根据真实事件改编，并荣获2008年金球奖最佳迷你电视剧集、最佳男主角（Jim Broadbent）和最佳女主角奖（Samantha Morton）。。