Not Reconciled

{{short description|1965 film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Not Reconciled

| image = Not Reconciled (1965) Film Poster.jpeg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Jean-Marie Straub

| producer =

| screenplay = {{ubl|Jean-Marie Straub|Danièle Huillet}}

| based_on = {{Based on|Billiards at Half-past Nine|Heinrich Böll}}

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| editing = {{ubl|Jean-Marie Straub|Danièle Huillet}}

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| released = {{Film date|df=y|1965|7|4|Berlinale}}

| runtime = 55 minutes

| country = West Germany

| language = German

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Not Reconciled ({{langx|de|Nicht versöhnt}}) is a 1965 West German drama film directed by Jean-Marie Straub. It has the subtitle Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns ({{langx|de|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."{{Cite web|last=Brody|first=Richard|date=2008-11-24|url=https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/not-reconciled|title=Not Reconciled|work=The New Yorker|accessdate=2012-05-12}}

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