刘美诗(丁丁 饰)身患绝症,铁路谭第有孕在身,铁路谭第当刘美诗临盆入院生下女儿雨花之时,丈夫意外车祸身亡。丧夫之痛,顽疾之扰,身无分文的刘美诗走途无路,只得忍痛将爱女雨花弃于公园,让人收养,自赴黄泉与夫重聚。茶馆老板马天禄(黄一飞 饰)去公园晨练时发现弃婴雨花,无能抚养,遂将雨花转交“宝贝之家”的何清华(戴子翔 饰)夫妇。
刘美诗(丁丁 饰)身患绝症,铁路谭第有孕在身,铁路谭第当刘美诗临盆入院生下女儿雨花之时,丈夫意外车祸身亡。丧夫之痛,顽疾之扰,身无分文的刘美诗走途无路,只得忍痛将爱女雨花弃于公园,让人收养,自赴黄泉与夫重聚。茶馆老板马天禄(黄一飞 饰)去公园晨练时发现弃婴雨花,无能抚养,遂将雨花转交“宝贝之家”的何清华(戴子翔 饰)夫妇。
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 :艾格曼(甘纳尔·布耶恩施特兰德 Gunnar Björnstrand 饰)是一位事业有成的律师,这一天,他带着妻子安妮(厄拉·亚科布松 Ulla Jacobsson 饰)去看一场演出,意外的遇见了自己曾经的恋人黛西瑞(伊娃·达尔贝克 Eva Dahlbeck 饰),艾格曼私下里找到了黛西瑞,想要叙叙旧,可是如今的黛西瑞已经是伯爵马尔科姆(凯尔·库勒 Jarl Kulle 饰)的人了,艾格曼的突然出现并没有令她感到有丝毫的高兴。艾格曼的儿子亨瑞克(比杨·比杰弗文斯塔姆 Björn Bjelfvenstam 饰)是一个发誓要潜心研究神学的男人,但家里的女佣却总是对他抛媚眼,打扰他的钻研,与此同时,他亦发现自己的目光总是若有若无的被年轻的继母安妮所吸引。
回复 :爱丽斯(凯特•温斯莱特 Kate Winslet饰)住在英国伦敦的乡村,而阿曼达(卡梅隆•迪亚兹 Cameron Diaz饰)则是洛杉矶的美国丽人。她们在天南地北的两端,却遇上了同样的问题:在感情上遭受了挫败,令生活灰暗无光。二人在网上聊天,商议在圣诞节到来之前,到对方的环境去生活,交互双方的住所作为度假场地。于是,一场令人兴奋的旅行开始了。爱丽斯来到美国大都市,阿曼达则乘班机前往极具英伦情调的英国乡村。除了新鲜的生活环境,当地男生的魅力更让她们猝不及防。