十方神器

戴维和黛安娜是一对感情很好的夫妻，两人事业成功，生活幸福，但经济萧条的到来使两人工作每况愈下，甚至连住房都无法操持。他们不甘以失败，下决心去赌城一搏。开始时，他们运气极好，但很快，两人就输光了所有的钱。这时，一位年老英俊的百万富翁盖奇提出帮他们，但条件是用100万换取与黛安娜共度一夜，终于，金钱的诱惑力战胜了一切，夫妇两人立下了字据，做了桃色交易。两人回到家中约定永不提此事，但事与愿违，两人感情出现裂痕。这时，盖奇又进入了他们的生活，热烈地追求，戴维一气之下离家出走。最终这一对曾经的爱人是否能够既往不咎？而百万富翁究竟是真心爱着黛安娜，还是另有其他目的？。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.。