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发表于8分钟前回复 :2019年东京国际电影节主竞赛单元的最佳影片!丹麦日德兰半岛西北部小镇里,克莉丝与轻微中风行动不便的叔叔相互照应,一同在牧场工作与生活。两人生活虽偶有琐碎的争执,但日复一日,平淡无奇。当克莉丝面对翩然降临的爱情,以及有机会实现的兽医梦,她与叔叔该如何调适各自的状态,给彼此一个喘息的空间?电影平实且细腻地呈现规律平凡的日常,近乎固执地逐步叠加叔姪俩冲突又高度依赖的关系。存在世界各地的农村现况,年轻世代面对离乡与否的抉择,亲情与梦想能不能兼顾?从人物的情感出发,深刻勾勒一个不同于哥本哈根都市面貌的丹麦故事。「我母亲的亲戚都生活在农村,我希望透过电影呈现丹麦农村的真实样貌。饰演叔叔的演员,他真正的职业是农夫,电影中的农舍是他真正的家;两位主要演员,在真实生活中亦是真正的叔叔和姪女。我希望我电影中的角色,能尽可能真实、原汁原味地贴近地方,说当地的语言。」──费雷彼得森
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发表于3分钟前回复 :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.