剧情描述年轻矿工保罗个性文静而敏感，高清其母葛楚因与时常酗酒的丈夫感情不睦，高清竟转向儿子寻求爱的寄托，情感超过了正常的母爱。这种情形影响了保罗跟女朋友米莉安的交往，米莉安因家庭严格的宗教观念影响，使她只想追求精神恋爱而排斥肉体的热情。保罗为了摆脱母亲的控制与女友的感情打击，竟一头投入与夫分居的女工克莱拉的怀抱，但旋即发现两人在精神上缺乏沟通。最后，保罗抛弃了这座单调乏味的煤矿小镇，到异乡另闯天下根据D．H劳伦斯自传体原著小说改编的英国文艺片，由杰出摄影师出身的杰克·卡迪夫执导，曾获奥斯卡最佳摄影奖。本片对保罗的复杂心理状态刻划得相当细腻，迪安·斯托克韦尔、特雷弗·霍华德和温迪·希勒这一家三口也演得出色。
蒲巴甲
回复 :影片是电影《我不是药神》拍摄纪录片，讲述了电影拍摄的整个过程。从开拍到结束，从不同层面展示影片拍摄中的经历。
吕方
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.
简英材
回复 :由独立制片人导演Gary Hustwit执导拍摄的纪录片《传奇字体》，讲述了Helvetica字体从起源诞生到它的特性和影响力，影片访谈了不同时期的老中青三代设计师，畅谈这款简洁、直接、醒目的传奇字体背后的故事。1957年，新字体Helvetica由麦克斯·米耶丁格和爱德华德·霍夫曼在瑞士Münchenstein的哈斯铸造所作为排版铅字制作。新的工业化时代正在来临，这种容易辨识和阅读的字体形式更适应快节奏的生活和工业化生产的需要，很快风靡世界。2007年，Helvetica字体诞生满五十周年。Helvetica字体已然存在于我们随处可见的任何一处角落，几乎成为了工业文明和机械化的象征。
