触手可及的幸福

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.。英国某小镇上的两个男子鲍勃（Bruce Jones 布鲁斯•琼斯饰）和汤米（Ricky Tomlinson 里奇•汤姆林森饰）中年失业，生活陷入困境。两人铤而走险，驱车到山里偷羊，然后请屠夫加工羊肉四处兜售。钱未赚到手，赖以为生的货车却又被人偷去。他们只能四处打零工赚钱，水管工、酒吧保镖甚至草皮小偷，为了钱想尽办法。 高利贷商人威尔林闯入鲍勃家催帐，羞辱他的妻子和女儿。鲍勃气愤不过，手持铁钳前去寻仇…… 本片荣获1993年戛纳国际电影节评委会大奖。。豪门苏家的长女苏晚意，不顾家人阻拦，毅然决然远嫁给小城市的顾铭泽，做起了洗衣做饭的家庭妇女。谁料到多年之后，她却成为了这个家庭的边缘人。更被丈夫讽刺远嫁的人没有娘家，当意识到老公和女儿不再需要她之后，苏晚意毅然离开，投入到龙国的金融大计中。。