Desolate after experiencing a traumatic incident, Mia travels to the family's summer retreat amid the snow-covered Himalayas in order to regain her strength. There she finds the company of the caretaker’s mother-in-law, Bimal, and her grandson, Sunny. Irrespective of their differing ages, social background and their ideas of happiness, a surprisingly strong bond develops betwee...。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.。白丽云,著名美女作家。八年前,她刚到北京工作不久,被老板性骚扰,男友张大维把老板打残被判重刑入狱,为帮张大维减刑,她求助于律师杨迪,杨迪不仅帮张大维减了刑,而且还帮白丽云过上她想要的生活,白丽云跟杨迪产生了感情,张大维出狱后,她不得不面临痛苦的抉择。 北京某区公安分局的刑警马晶晶,她因为忙于工作,忽略了丈夫和家人,婚姻亮起了红灯;在侦查一桩蹊跷的名画抢劫案时,她意外发现好友丁虹和杨迪的婚姻关系的真相,因此意识到家庭对自己的重要,决定要拯救自己的婚姻。 丁虹,《都市法制报》的主编,杨迪的妻子,马晶晶的大学同学和好朋友,她自以为一切尽在自己的掌控中,但当生活的真相浮出水面后,她的精神几近崩溃。。