Not Reconciled

1965 film
  • Jean-Marie Straub
  • Danièle Huillet
Based onBilliards at Half-past Nine
by Heinrich BöllCinematography
  • Christian Blackwood
  • Gerhard Ries
  • Wendelin Sachtler
  • Jean-Marie Straub
Edited by
  • Jean-Marie Straub
  • Danièle Huillet
Release date
Running time
55 minutesCountryWest GermanyLanguageGerman

Not Reconciled (German: Nicht versöhnt) is a 1965 West German drama film directed by Jean-Marie Straub. It has the subtitle Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns (German: Es hilft nur Gewalt wo Gewalt herrscht). The film is an adaptation of the 1959 novel Billiards at Half-past Nine by Heinrich Böll.

Reception

Richard Brody of The New Yorker reviewed the film in 2008: "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."[1]

References

  1. ^ Brody, Richard (2008-11-24). "Not Reconciled". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2012-05-12.

External links

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