该片跨越25年拍摄而成,小草深入探讨我们集体对于财富和名气的迷恋与追求。
该片跨越25年拍摄而成,小草深入探讨我们集体对于财富和名气的迷恋与追求。
回复 :艾利克斯(方中信 饰)曾是业内非常有名的音乐创作人,他所做的曲子可谓是千金难求。然而,艾利克斯并不想一味的去写那些讨好听众讨好市场的歌,而是希望能够将自己的抱负寄托在音乐之中,久而久之,他的订单越来越少,最终再也无人问津。落魄和失意之中,艾利克斯只能依靠酒精来麻痹内心,在酒吧,他邂逅了名为艾薇(蒙嘉慧 饰)的酒吧招待,艾薇拥有一副动人的好嗓子,艾利克斯发现了她的天赋,决定帮她一把。在艾利克斯的推荐之下,艾薇进入了唱片公司,没想到竟然一炮而红一跃成为了当红歌手,但与此同时,她和艾利克斯之间的距离却变得越来越远。
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.
回复 :由于俊雄多日未到学校上课,他的班主任小林俊介(柳忧怜 饰)赶来家访,看到精神恍惚、举止怪异的俊雄,并获悉川又伽椰子对自己的心意。这时他接到佐伯刚雄的电话,得知怀孕的妻子已被对方残忍杀害,与此同时,被杀死的伽椰子也出现他的面前。惨案不久,通灵者铃木响子(大家由佑子 饰)受经营地产中介的弟弟达也(芦川诚 饰)之托调查佐伯家房子的情况。响子向弟弟提出忠告,但她很快便发现厄运已经找到她和侄子信之的头上。另一方面,购买这幢房子的北田夫妻也开始了他们恐怖诡异的生活。咒怨不灭,死者连连……本片为咒怨系列OV版第二部。