影片根据Marjorie Wallace撰写的同名书籍改编，讲述一对双胞胎姐妹非常沉默，她们只用一种专有的语言来彼此交流。她们迷恋于写小说、男孩以及青少年间的犯罪活动，她们之间的紧密关系使得某些事情变得十分危险。

In small czech town named Jilemnice live unfortunate, but brave and jovial woman Štěpa Kiliánová, whose only desire was to fill the void in her virgin life. In despair and excessive trust, she married a sardonic, reclusive man, former lieutenant and gambler Pavel Malina, whose only wish was finally found peace and forgetting the past. They lived through unrequited love, dislike and disappointment. But no one knew that her groom begin to show signs of cerebral disease, which in the coming years engulf his sanity.

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.

　　1931年的柏林。一个介于分租房和黑社会之间的环境，妓院是艺术家的工作室，纳粹在街上大肆辱骂，巴贝尔斯堡则梦想着制作"心理电影"。生活在澎湃，社会在发酵，在腐蚀。只要还有工作，拥有德国研究博士学位的雅各布·法比安白天写广告文案，晚上就和斯蒂芬·拉布德一起频繁出入城市中比较荒诞的场所。他的朋友-后来承认自己"在生活和职业的课题上"失败了-在谈到共产主义和性的时候，是个有进取心的人，而法比安却依然清醒而疏离。他等待着"体面的胜利"，却没有真正相信它。他对柯内莉亚的爱是唯一让他质疑自己讽刺宿命论的东西。她成了他崩溃生活中的一缕希望。尽管与今天这个被人诟病的世界有很多相似之处，但要让埃里希·凯斯特纳深沉悲凉的自传体小说《法比安》-魏玛共和国最重要的小说之一-走出阴暗的生存环境是一个挑战。多米尼克·格拉夫出色地驾驭了这一挑战。他的风格是微妙的尖锐，冷血的轻快，却又安静忧郁。这部电影就像一个缓慢转动的迪斯科球，讲述了性行为和空冰箱之间的联系，以及幸福梦想的瓦解。

　　马耳他渔业日渐萧条，出身渔民世家的杰斯马克为了养活妻儿，不得不铤而走险尝试黑市捕鱼交易。影片极具现实主义风格，从马耳他本地渔民的视角出发，将对多种社会议题的探讨，巧妙地穿插在一个感人至深的家庭故事之中，呈现了地中海美丽风光背后的悲情真相。片中包括男主角在内的多个角色，均是由当地渔民出演，他们朴实无华的本色出演真实而自然。本片是第一部亮相圣丹斯电影节的马耳他电影，并最终荣获2021年圣丹斯电影节世界电影单元评审团特别奖。