视频简介
The film tells the story of a small train riding without its driver and the passengers locked inside. They all had originally their individual goals and destinations but now they one common target - getting out of the train or eventually stopping it. Although the train is moving very slowly, a real drama (partially very absurd) breaks out both inside and outside the train where...。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.。1949年，当共匪的魔掌正攫取大陆之时，中国南部某地，有美籍神父奥班年（威廉•荷顿饰），偕一中国少女秀兰（阮兰丝饰）骑驴赶着路程，朝向某一城镇进发，去接替该城天主教堂的包神父（克利夫顿•韦伯饰）工作，少女秀兰，天真慧黠，对奥神父颇为崇拜，且表心爱慕，她沿途絮絮不休，并向奥吐露爱意，奥不胜其烦，途至三里湾的兰福教堂，遂将秀兰托付李梅神父，自己则兼程赶路，但已经耽误了两天行程。。
