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.

This is a very bizarre fairy tale. It commences with a wedding and singing and dancing but nearly the whole village is wiped out by wolves. The bride gives birth to a daughter several months later and promises her to the boy who saved her.　　Ten years later there is another disruption when Some circus folk come by and the villagers trick them into staying. Tragedy ensues...　　This has a strange cast, dwarfs, giants, priests and occasional intrusions from the modern world in the form of the police and a wonderer who returns bringing to the village the good news of Nostradamus. It is a long film but it honestly does not drag. and if you get bored of the plot you can always look at the sumptuous Countryside.

泰国电影《挛凤和鸣》由一个婚礼开始。五位职业女性大胆谈情说性，对性这个话题毫不避讳，极度渴望，就像美国电视剧《色欲都市》，大声高呼“新时代，新女性”，为泰国电影中少见。导演翁乙喜欢以同性恋为题材，其中最为人熟悉的可算是《人妖打排球》。翁乙对同性恋一直抱开放的态度，认为别 人的看法并不重要，最重要是了解自己，知道自己想要甚幺。他善于以风趣幽默的手法，利用同性恋炮制抵死笑话，但信息都是正面的。《挛凤和鸣》就是关于几个好姊妹测试男主角是否孪男的故事，弄出不少笑料。　　子光细心又体贴，衣着有品味，靓仔又有风度，这样的好男人简直是世间少有，难怪夏萍只是跟他拍拖三个月就决定要结婚。“真的有这种绝种好男人？”夏萍的四位好友慧兰、阿莲、阿璧、楼亦菲深信天下乌鸦一样黑，细心整齐绝非男人所为，所以怀疑子光是挛的，结婚只为隐瞒性取向﹗为怕好友嫁错郎，四人组成秘密调查小组四出查探，潜入疑犯屋企搜集证据、到疑犯曾就读的学校侦查……