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The s]\ubtitle of?$% Jean-Marie Stra--ub and=@ Dan/i[/èle Huillet’s] fir\%]s @]t feature -. , fro`_m 1965, (!“Only Viole/ nce Helps ]Where=% Vio+; l@\en_\*ce Reig`=\ns,” suggests )`th [e f_/i.erce political progr ( am evoked b?y their rigor*o$;*us aesthetic,#. T`he) p ,r:[etext of ?the film, set /in Cologne, is Heinrich /#@@Bö ?l l’s nove\l “Billiards at Half ,+^Past Nine,” which they s`trip down to a] handful ,,_of stark even`.ts and film with ;a confro? ]/ ntation(a l [angul. arity akin t?.)o B a rtók’s.^; m]*u) -sic ]that ador :n?#s the sound[@tra _ ck. - The!% subtl!:.es*t $#:o\f?) _ cue[s accompa n,@y/` the sto]ry’/:!s c`+omple x flash ]back *+s. Th e middle-aged Robert Fähmel tell] s a y]`+ oung hotel bel[$lhop of persecutions =# =u nd*/er t@ (h(!e =/(Third Rei-.#\ch; his elderly f$ather, Heinr%!?ich, an archit\ !,ec]t fam,/ed for a`[) \)loc[al abbey, recalls the. militarism of the!= First World War, w hen h(is wife, !Johan: na, inc],[` ur# ;\red troubl ;e for insulting] the]=- +Kaise$@%r. A third-generatio= ??n Fähm $el is considering arc !;/hitectur] e\#, ?just a: s the exiled br`#othe%-:r of Rob=:ert.’s() l+ate wife, return=s, on ly $?- to be met by the$* !ir] former +to=@rturer, now@ a West Germ@;an o +?fficia] l taking part in a ce[lebratory`) par,ade ; of )#war veterans. Strau :!!b and H[;uillet [_m ake th%$-e `\ -laye-?%rs o.!f ;]hist ory live in ].th#[e _/prese% ,;nt% tense, w*hic! h they judg :=e severely. The tamped-down = act]/ing and;-[ ]%the spare,)*% te`^#n[\se =/visu@(%al rhetoric suggest a state o/[f mora^#,l crisis a._s well as th :.e res /ponse—as /%[much in@ %*` style as in su+:bstance—tha_ t] it demands.