导演把剧作家Arthur Schnitzler的戏剧第二次搬上大荧幕(第一次是由德国电影导演奥夫尔斯Max Ophuls操刀)。讲述的是几对恋人互相交换伴侣,女总在连场不断的的风流韵事中享受真正的情欲快感。获:女总1966年金球奖最佳外语片提名
导演把剧作家Arthur Schnitzler的戏剧第二次搬上大荧幕(第一次是由德国电影导演奥夫尔斯Max Ophuls操刀)。讲述的是几对恋人互相交换伴侣,女总在连场不断的的风流韵事中享受真正的情欲快感。获:女总1966年金球奖最佳外语片提名
回复 :若规慎二(内野圣阳 饰)是生命保险公司下非正常死亡赔偿事务的调查员,某日若规应邀到客户菰田重德(西村雅彦 饰)家中做客,意外撞见菰田的继子和也上吊的自杀现场。事后菰田夫妇未表现出过多悲伤,反而不断催促若规索取赔偿金。若规根据种种疑点推断和也绝非自杀,暗中展开调查。菰田夫妇则从最初的催促演变成恐吓,令若规疲惫不堪。最后经警方调查,认定和也确系自杀,菰田夫妇得到巨额赔偿。本以为事情告一段落的若规很快得知,菰田重德做工时不慎被切断双臂,其妻幸子(大竹しのぶ 大竹忍 饰)有很大嫌疑。若规重新介入其中,不曾想却陷入一个比想象的更为黑暗的漩涡之中……
回复 :Маленькая деревушка Шишка под Сталинградом, середина ноября 1942 года. Война доносится сюда лишь отголосками великих битв и сражений, которые происходят совсем рядом. Жители деревни, спасающие от голода и холода горожан, еще как-то пытаются жить спокойной жизнью.Большая часть немногочисленного мужского населения тайно влюблена в местную красавицу Калю, в том числе молодой деревенский скотник Ваня Мельников и приехавший в эвакуацию городской паренек Игорь. Однажды Ваня в поисках корма для своих питомцев идет в степь и берет с собой Игоря. Он уверен, что у него будет возможность доказать сопернику свое право на любовь к Кале. Но в степи ребята встречают немца. Немец стреляет в Игоря. А потом Иван и немецкий солдат спасают раненого.
回复 :It has been said that most great twentieth century novels include scenes in a hotel, a symptom of the vast uprooting that has occurred in the last century: James Ivory begins Quartet with a montage of the hotels of Montparnasse, a quiet prelude before our introduction to the violently lost souls who inhabit them.Adapted from the 1928 autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet is the story of a love quadrangle between a complicated young West Indian woman named Marya (played by Isabelle Adjani), her husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins), a manipulative English art patron named Heidler (Alan Bates), and his painter wife Lois (Maggie Smith). The film is set in the Golden Age of Paris, Hemingway's "moveable feast" of cafe culture and extravagant nightlife, glitter and literati: yet underneath is the outline of something sinister beneath the polished brasses and brasseries.When Marya's husband is put in a Paris prison on charges of selling stolen art works, she is left indigent and is taken in by Heidler and his wife: the predatory Englishman (whose character Rhys bases on the novelist Ford Madox Ford) is quick to take advantage of the new living arrangement, and Marya finds herself in a stranglehold between husband and wife. Lovers alternately gravitate toward and are repelled by each other, now professing their love, now confessing their brutal indifference -- all the while keeping up appearances. The film explores the vast territory between the "nice" and the "good," between outward refinement and inner darkness: after one violent episode, Lois asks Marya not to speak of it to the Paris crowd. "Is that all you're worried about?" demands an outraged Marya. "Yes," Lois replies with icy candor, "as a matter of fact."Adjani won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her performances in Quartet: her Marya is a volatile compound of French schoolgirl and scorned mistress, veering between tremulous joy and hysterical outburst. Smith shines in one of her most memorable roles: she imbues Lois with a Katherine-of-Aragon impotent rage, as humiliated as she is powerless in the face of her husband's choices. Her interactions with Bates are scenes from a marriage that has moved from disillusionment to pale acceptance.Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory's screenplay uses Rhys's novel as a foundation from which it constructs a world that is both true to the novel and distinctive in its own right, painting a society that has lost its inhibitions and inadvertently lost its soul. We are taken to mirrored cafes, then move through the looking glass: Marya, in one scene, is offered a job as a model and then finds herself in a sadomasochistic pornographer's studio. The film, as photographed by Pierre Lhomme, creates thoroughly cinematic moments that Rhy's novel could not have attempted: in one of the Ivory's most memorable scenes, a black American chanteuse (extraordinarily played by Armelia McQueen) entertains Parisian patrons with a big and brassy jazz song, neither subtle nor elegant. Ivory keeps the camera on the singer's act: there is something in her unguarded smile that makes the danger beneath Montparnasse manners seem more acute.