单亲家庭长大的Jamie（Glen Berry）因为不爱运动，春暖在学校显得很不合群，春暖上学成为他最头疼的事，而随着年龄的增长，他同母亲的交流也有了障碍，尤其在母亲交了个莽撞憨直的男友后，他更不知如何与母亲相处。他的邻居，英俊的小伙子Ste（Scott Neal）与他相比，也好不到哪儿去，Ste时常遭嗜酒如命的父亲和哥哥拳打脚踢。某天，Ste遭家人殴打后又被扫地出门，Jamie的母亲可怜他把他叫到家里同Jamie一起睡，两个少男第一夜虽没共枕，却对彼此生出异样感觉，而随着同床日子的增多，他们渐渐爱上了对方，但是，麻烦也紧接而来。
回复 :17世纪初叶，经过长时间的攻伐兼并，日本战国时代落下帷幕，转而进入了德川幕府统治的时代。和平降临，取而代之的是大批武士流离失所，为生计所苦逼。在此期间，有的浪人请求在显贵门前剖腹以保存颜面，有的人因此得到留用，也有的得到物质资助，但其中不乏借此敲诈的宵小之徒。某天，名门井伊家迎来了名叫千千岩求女（瑛太 饰）的年轻浪人，为杜绝这股邪风，井伊家假戏真做，逼迫千千岩以及其不体面的方式悲惨死去。原以为这会令敲诈的浪人们望而却步，谁知不久后另一位名叫津云半四郎（市川海老藏 饰）的中年武士前来求死……本片根据泷口康彦的小说《异闻浪人记》改编，该故事曾于1962年由名匠小林正树搬上银幕。
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 :本片描述1933年德国的纳粹势力崛起时，在一艘由墨西哥驶往柏林的大客轮上发生了诸多荒谬可笑的事，反映出在特殊的时代氛围下大千世界的人生缩影。船员都是德国人，其中还包括船上的医生，他爱上了其中的一名女乘客。此外还有一个年轻的美国女孩，是和她爱着的男人一起旅行。对于其他乘客来说，神秘的珍妮令人琢磨不透，但是有一个著名的人物却引起了她的注意。一九三三年德国纳粹崛起时，有一艘客轮自南美载客至柏林，本片就是描述船上各式各样的乘客在航行途中的生活片段。这是一部在大时代背景下的小缩影，剧本结构严密，对白精彩有力，而导演斯坦利．克雷默的执导手法沉稳而细腻，同时表现出时代洪流的冲突与乱世人生的无奈。演员费雯．丽、奥斯卡．沃纳、李．马文、乔治．席格等都演得十分成功，使这部群戏教人印象难忘。此片是费雯．丽的最后一部作品，她时年五十二岁。本片曾获最佳黑白片摄影、最佳黑白片艺术指导两项金像奖。
