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.。16岁的尤里一直住在加加林大厦——一个地处巴黎郊区巨大的公共住宅项目。他梦想成为一名宇航员。当他所爱的社区即将被拆除时,尤里与朋友们组成了小小的抵抗联盟,意图拯救加加林大厦,把冰冷的水泥屋改造成梦幻的飞船。老旧公屋拆除,激起的是社会底层的嗟叹,但影片用独特的影像风格、大胆音效设计和打破常规的视野淡化了真实事件中的苦涩无奈,其散发的青春气息格外动人。加加林不仅是居民楼代号、功勋宇航员的姓氏,更是走出舱门的脚步和瞭望别样星辰的视角。。在这个被枪火所控制的城市里,非法毒品交易帮派间一场看不见的战争正在激烈进行,而武装警*的参与,街道变成了战场。一个年轻女孩欠毒贩一笔钱,为了偿债连夜沿街卖淫;一个屌丝决心要打破这种暴力循环的模式,最终要面对面解决邪恶的黑帮犯罪。故事平行聚焦在四位年轻人身上,以段落式短篇故事逐一串连,叙说他们如何在龙蛇杂处的Forest Gate Nicktime区(伦敦的一个贫民区),为自己的尊严和生命搏斗。。