Not Reconciled
Appearance
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Directed by | Jean-Marie Straub |
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Based on | Billiards at Half-past Nine by Heinrich Böll |
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Running time | 55 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ Brody, Richard (2008-11-24). "Not Reconciled". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2012-05-12.
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Categories:
- 1965 films
- 1960s avant-garde and experimental films
- 1965 drama films
- Films based on German novels
- Films based on works by Heinrich Böll
- Films directed by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
- German avant-garde and experimental films
- German drama films
- 1960s German-language films
- West German films
- Films set in Cologne
- 1960s German films
- 1960s German film stubs