雷达(简·德克莱尔 Jan Decleir 饰)是一名冷酷而又残暴的杀手,身上背负着累累的血债。造化弄人,雷达换上了阿兹海默症,这也就意味着,随着时间的推移,他离“退休”越来越近了。在一次重要的任务中,雷达震惊的发现自己要暗杀的对象竟然是一个只有十二岁的孩子,悲惨的童年经历让他迟迟无法下手,并决定展开他的复仇计划。
雷达杀死了同僚吉尔斯(帕特里克·德康 Patrick Descamps 饰),制造了自己已死的假象。与此同时,出色的探员温科(肯·德·布沃 Koen De Bouw 饰)和韦斯特(沃纳·德·斯曼特 Werner De Smedt 饰)亦紧紧的追随在雷达的身后,想要将其绳之于法。
An amateur camper stumbles across a kidnapping gone wrong, a jailhouse rendezvous, a double-cross, or a revenge plot, depending on which desperate character is misinterpreting the story - a puzzle thrill-ride told with no dialogue.
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.
Amid picturesque red dirt, blue sky, and green agave fields stands Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory struggling to stay afloat. At the helm of the plant reigns Maria Garcia, heir to the family business and beacon to the townspeople she employs. To help oversee the company’s administration, Maria appoints an eager woman named Rafaela, whose vibrant presence generates much-needed hope in a home thirsty for a miracle. When a persistent plague and an unexpected flood cause irreversible damage, Maria is forced to do everything she can to save her community’s main source of economy and pride.