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.。杜信义是一位典型的文艺病老男孩,他和女朋友李啦一起合开了一家名叫怪咖啡的咖啡馆。咖啡馆中还有李啦的闺蜜启萱,好色痴男大厨颇瓜,小鲜肉咖啡师朴日进。突然有一天,李啦抛下了整个咖啡馆一大家子卷款消失了!一夜之间,杜信义面临着情感破裂和事业破产双重打击!自此之后,怪咖啡诸位怪咖们群策群力,在一年间,大家将这家曾几何时濒临绝境债务累累的咖啡馆,经营成了一家怪咖云集疯癫搞笑的奇葩乐园,并各自收获了甜美的爱情……。刘伟立与宛芬夫妻恩爱. 芬贪慕虚荣, 得知立快升任副理, 便粉饰家居, 分期付款购买电器及家具. 为了升职一事, 夫妇俩不惜大拍董事长一家马屁. 结果, 副理由董事长儿子担任, 立、芬只好眼巴巴看家里一切给债主搬走. (来源:香港电影资料馆)。