他是一个只愿宅在家里的网站设计师，爱填她是一个做着橱窗设计的建筑师。在这个信息科技高速发达的年代，爱填无论是他还是她都在经受不同程度的精神压抑。他们住在同一个城市同一条街道，但是却像两条平行的直线从未有过交点。他们分别和各自的伴侣约会、分手，各自在寻找着那个正确的人。她是玛丽安娜（碧拉尔·洛佩兹·德·阿亚拉 Pilar López de Ayala 饰），他是马丁（哈维尔·多罗拉斯 Javier Drolas 饰），他们是布宜诺斯艾利斯里两个普通人。可是因为内心的执着，让玛丽安娜从未放弃由一本儿时图画书引发的追寻。也所幸那些“不正确的人”的离开，终于让冥冥注定的相遇终于实现。
胡敏明
回复 :希特勒（Noah Taylor）从小立志要当杰出画家，一名犹太美术老师（John Cusack）未能成功开启他的艺术天份，才促使了希特勒日后投效政坛呼风唤雨，电影主要着墨在两人亦师亦友的关系上。
蒋万勋
回复 :从最大的节日派对到最小的社区教会, Kenny Smyth都在这些所有的地方运送可移动式厕所，并且还要把他们冲洗乾净。由于工作的原因，Kenny Smyth被社会所忽略而且也未受到认同, 在社会这个大机器中他好象就是一个嵌齿轮一样无足轻重，可他自己却认为在穿上闪耀的工作服，并且同他的忠实的'Splashdown'（溅落） 小组一起工作的时候，自己就像一个骑士一样。
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.
