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.。The story of the 1973 hockey season when aging legend Gordie Howe returned to the ice at the age of 44.。家境平平的阿珍(李丽珍 饰)外表娴淑美丽,实则泼辣果敢,她因参与打架斗殴而被迫转校。在新学校里,阿珍受到同学欺负,关键时刻校董女儿阿美(罗美薇 饰)出手相助。放学后阿美遭到报复,这时阿珍挺身而出,将坏同学悉数打倒,她和阿美自此也成为了好朋友。
好朋友各有各的心事:一次偶然的恶作剧,让阿美结识了在加拿大留学的学友(张学友 饰),在有限的假期内,两人开始了短暂的交往,阿美品尝着爱情之花的甜蜜与苦涩;阿珍爱上了帅气硬朗的飞车当米高(王敏德 饰),然而才刚刚开始的恋情,却因一场意外戛然而止……。