劳拉（朱莉娅·罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰）从未想到过，极影自己的婚姻竟然是如此的令她感到痛苦，极影短短3年中，丈夫马丁（帕特里克·博金 Patrick Bergin 饰）的控制欲和独占欲早已经远远超过了正常的范畴，而他的狂躁和暴力让劳拉不得不屈服于丈夫的监视和掌控之下。在一次出海游玩的旅程中，劳拉纵身跃入了大海，熟知水性的她故意在平日里装出一副恐水的模样，就是为了这次出逃所作的准备。马丁以为不会游泳的劳拉已经葬身大海，而实际上，逃出生天的劳拉不仅在一个小镇上安了家，还结识了赖以信任的男子本（凯文·安德森 Kevin Anderson 饰）。正当劳拉的生活逐渐走上正轨之时，马丁在偶然中发现了劳拉未死的秘密，愤怒的他踏上了寻妻之路。
回复 :在冷战白热化时期，在社交圈声名不佳的华德喜欢上年轻天真的歌舞女郎莉丝，并决定将她塑造成耀眼而世故的名媛；不久后莉丝便成为苏俄海军随员尤金伊瓦诺夫，及英国国防部长普佛墨的亲密朋友，当这桩秘密韵事被媒体揭露后，所有相关人物都不得善终普佛墨辞职、莉丝入狱、伊瓦诺夫被遣返、而华德也因仲介卖淫的罪名遭到起诉。--------------------------------------------------------------------------------本片是根据1963年发生在英国政治圈内，著名的〃普佛墨丑闻〃所改编。导演迈克尔.卡顿.琼斯(Michael Caton-Jones)另有「英烈的岁月」、「赤胆豪情」等作品，布里奇特.方达（Bridget Fonda，「黑色终结令」）在片中还装出英国腔参与演出，此外〃年轻食人族FYC〃的主唱罗纳德.弗雷泽也在片中轧了一角。
回复 :警方在一次扫荡行动中搜得「应召名册」一本，于是怀疑非法集团强逼女明星卖淫。女明星刘惠(刘雅英饰)本是妓女，偶然机会被星探发掘做明星，成名之后，一跃成为专向外国游客卖淫的高级妓女。明姐(陈萍饰)是电影明星，每次拍戏途中都会忽然牙痛失踪，其实，诊所已被安排作卖淫的场所。年青女星白小曼(余莎莉饰)也在应召名册上，后来她不甘受压逼，走上自杀之路。应召名册上的卖淫女星，呼之欲出，圈内圈外，谈论不休，视钱如命
回复 :转自：http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/2010/views-from-the-avant-garde-friday-october-1/views-from-the-avant-garde-jean-marie-straub“The end of paradise on earth.”—Jean-Marie StraubThe 33rd verse and last chant of “paradise” in Dante’s Divine Comedy. The film starts with verse 67, “O somma luce…” and continues to the end. “O Somma luce” recalls the first words uttered by Empedocles in Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s 1987 The Death of Empedocles—“O himmlisch Licht!…” (O heavenly light!). This extract from Hölderlin’s text is also inserted into their 1989 film Cézanne.“O somma luce” invokes utopia, or better still “u-topos,” Dante, Holderlin, Cézanne… the camera movement, recalling Sisyphus, in the film’s long shots, suggests its difficulty.In O somma luce, with Giorgio Passerone’s Dante and the verse that concluded the Divine Comedy, we find at the extremity of its possibilities, the almost happy speech of a man who has just left earthly paradise, who tries to fully realize the potential of his nature. Between the two we find the story of the world. The first Jean-Marie Straub film shot in HD.So singular are the textual working methods of Straub-Huillet, and now Straub on his own, that it is hard to grasp how far reaching they are. Direction is a matter of words and speech, not emotions and action. Nothing happens at the edges, everything is at the core and shines from there alone.During the rehearsals we sense a slow process by which ingredients (a text, actors, an intuition) progress towards cohesiveness. It is, forgive the comparison, like the kneading of dough. It is the assembling and working of something until it becomes something else… and, in this case, starts to shine. Actually it’s very simple, it’s just a question of opening up to the light material that has been sealed up. Here, the process of kneading is to bring to life and then reveal. The material that is worked on is speech. So it is speech that becomes visible—nothing else. “Logos” comes to the cinema.The mise en scène of what words exactly?The process of revealing, “phainestai”; “phainomenon,” the phenomenon, is what take splace, what becomes visible to the eye.Is “Straubie” Greece?This mise en scène of speech, which goes beyond a close reading of the chosen text, is truly comes from a distant source.—Barbara Ulrich
