Not Reconciled

Not Reconciled
Directed byJean-Marie Straub
Screenplay by
  • Jean-Marie Straub
  • Danièle Huillet
Based onBilliards at Half-past Nine
by Heinrich Böll
Cinematography
Edited by
  • Jean-Marie Straub
  • Danièle Huillet
Release date
Running time
55 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

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.