吉米（西恩•潘 Sean Penn 饰）、戴夫（蒂姆•罗宾斯 Tim Robbins 饰）和西恩（凯文•贝肯 Kevin Bacon 饰）是儿时最要好的玩伴。戴夫10岁那年的一桩事件却改变了单纯美好的童年和友谊。尚且年幼的戴夫被歹徒绑架，对他施以性虐待，这个羞辱的经历从此改变了戴夫的人生。他变得与别人越来越疏离，三人的友谊在慢慢消融。 三人各奔东西，却因为吉米的女儿遭杀害而重新有了联系。因为负责这个案件的，碰巧是西恩，此时他已是一名警探，面对好友女儿的被害，心急要找出真凶，却意外发现所有证据的矛头都指向了那个曾经亲密无间的伙伴——戴夫。关系变得剑拔弩张，而过去的友谊，如今的对立，都在拉扯着每个当事人的心。
A suicidal alcoholic’s last day teems with images of anxiety and Kafkaesque paranoia. Adapted from Marek Hlasko’s novel ‘The First Step in the Clouds’, Has’ feature debut is cinematic delirium tremens, as young man Kuba Kowalski escapes his cramped flat to wander from bar to bar, unable to escape the trap of isolation. The metaphorical noose tightens as Kuba, nearly saved by the love of a good woman, dives deeper into hallucinatory intoxication.
汤姆·克鲁斯凭此片获金球奖最佳男配角奖。 主持吉米（菲利浦·贝克·霍尔 Philip Baker Hall 饰）患癌症时日无多，女儿陷入对邻居的狂热迷恋，妻子对此无能为力，吉米不知如何将自己的情况告诉女儿。吉米节目的嘉宾斯坦利（杰瑞米·布莱克曼 Jeremy Blackm an 饰）马上就能打破由唐尼（威廉姆·H·梅西 William H. Macy 饰）30年前创下的纪录，却不知唐尼只能在电器店打工。帕特里奇爵士（杰森·罗巴兹 Jason Robards 饰）病入膏肓，年轻的妻子琳达（朱丽安·摩尔 Julianne Moore 饰）当初为钱嫁给他如今却真心爱上老人，悔不当初。护理医生菲尔（菲利普·塞默·霍夫曼 Philip Seymour Hoffman 饰）把老人离家出走多年的爱子弗兰克（汤姆·克鲁斯 Tom Cruise 饰）带到家希望他谅解父亲......
Celestine, the chambermaid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man. But Mr Lanlaire is not a right choice all the house is firmly controlled by Mme Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, ex-officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive, and does not share his mother's anti-republicans opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and also Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity
Will sinister and inflexible Joseph let his views upon Celestine be ruined
A quite disillusioned depiction of humanity.
The screenplay tells the story of the toxic relationship between two strong, independent women who are aware that they are alone in the world Beatriz, who has apparently achieved everything in life that she set out to do; and Sofía, who thinks she is ready to do whatever it takes to get the life she believes she deserves.
In fourteenth-century England, peasant girl Christine Carpenter is so attracted to a statue of the Virgin Mary that the local priest (who lusts after her) suggests she be walled up in the church as an anchoress, a holy woman with responsibility for blessing the villagers. But when the priest has Christine's mother tried as a witch, she digs herself out of her cell, a crime for which the punishment is death.
缇娜（伊娃·米兰德 Eva Melander 饰）是一位经验非常丰富的海关官员，她拥有着对于犯罪气息异常敏锐的嗅觉，没有一个心怀鬼胎的人能够轻易逃脱的了她的双眼。某日，缇娜遇见了一个名为沃尔（埃罗·米罗诺夫 Eero Milonoff 饰）的男人，直觉告诉缇娜，这个看上去无比正常的男人，正在隐藏着什么惊天大秘密。
让缇娜感到无法相信的是，自己竟然不可自持的被沃尔所吸引着，当她和沃尔的距离渐渐拉近之时，缇娜震惊的发现，原来沃尔的秘密和自己亦有着千丝万缕的关联。沃尔的存在让她开始意识到，自己有条不紊的一生其实都是谎言，是继续闭上眼睛苟且偷生，还是勇敢的触碰真相，缇娜需要做出她的选择。
The story appears simple on the surface, but is revealed, especially after multiple viewings, as more multi-layered and textured than Cassavetes at his best. Ostensibly it concerns a 14-year old Catholic girl, Wynne (Agutter) growing up in this post-modern wasteland, who develops a crush on her much older adoptive brother (Marshall)- a crush which perversely deepens and grows into infatuation once she starts to believe he is the local sex killer. This is in itself an idea that makes you sit up and jolt, but as the narrative develops, it continues not necessarily along a linear path but in several confusing and fascinating directions: the family's history, (detailed effectively in chilling flashback during an improvised seance) is a chequered one, and has suffered at least one major relocation and upheaval in the last ten years.
At the crux, however, it's the depiction of socialal changes that make I Start Counting so fascinating and elevate its language far beyond the confines of the standard horror film. The major subtext- that teenage girls were maturing more quickly than before, and developing full sexual and romantic appetites (even if in thought rather than deed) but were not possessed of enough discretion to make the right choices- was a step forward for a genre in which its young females had previously been portrayed as bimbo victims (Cover Girl Killer and The Night Caller spring to mind), but not one that all viewers would necessarily agree with.
But most striking of all, and possibly the most enduring image which the viewer will take away with them, is of the masterful symbolism with which director Greene invests every shot. Every inch of the Kinch family's world- their house, their walls, their TV, Agutters underwear, bedroom furniture and toys, Sutcliffe's clothes, Marshalls van, the local Catholic church, their town centre, their record shop) - is painted a bright, scintillating white- a white which, by inference, is slowly becoming smudged and corrupted with the dirt of the outside world. White also symbolises, of course, purity and innocence (two qualities Catholic schoolgirls are supposed to hold dear), and it is into this world of innocence that the ever-present red bus (a symbol of violation and penetration), conducted by the lecherous yet similarly juvenile Simon Ward, makes regular journeys. The allegory is further expanded in one scene where Agutter believes she sees the Christ figure in church weeping blood: by the time we acknowledge it, its gone, but the seed has already been planted. Rarely in a genre production has the use of colour and background been so important or effective in creating a uniformity of mood.
I Start Counting is as near-perfect an end to a decade as one could hope for, and exactly the kind of film people should be making now- which is, of course, exactly why they never will. A genre essential.
by D.R. SHIMON@lounge.moviecodec.com
阿尔（小弗雷迪·普林兹 Freddie Prinze Jr. 饰）和艾莫根（朱丽娅·斯蒂尔斯 Julia Stiles 饰）是一对年轻的恋人，他们志趣相投心性相似，是旁人眼中天造地设的一对佳偶，就连他们自己也坚信，他们就是彼此命中注定的那一个人。 在车水马龙的繁华大都市伦敦，有很多人像阿尔和艾莫根一样处于一段稳定的关系之中，但有另一些人，他们流连于灯红酒绿的欢场内，徘徊在个性迥异的伴侣间，享受着年轻和激情带来的肆意自由，从无定数。而目睹这一切的阿尔和艾莫根，渐渐对自己的生活方式产生了怀疑。就在这个节骨眼上，一场意外的发生成为了两人关系的转折点，是继续携手还是分道扬镳，他们无法做出选择。
剧团导演正在与舞者们排演弗兰明戈舞蹈版的《莎乐美》，预演排练，分工调度，各抒己见。终于，这场致命的绝伦之舞上演了。美艳性感的少女莎乐美（阿伊达·戈麦兹 Aída Gómez 饰）的母亲希罗底（卡门·维莱那 Carmen Villena 饰）原本是希律王（帕科·莫拉Paco Mora 饰）的嫂子，在杀害自己丈夫后改嫁希律王。施洗约翰（哈维尔·托卡 Javier Toca 饰）为此谴责了她，希罗底怀恨在心。施洗约翰试图阻止这段婚姻，被希律王困于狱中。情窦初开的莎乐美在施洗约翰面前跳起充满崇拜之情的示爱之舞，却遭到拒绝。在希罗底的怂恿下，莎乐美在希律王面前跳了一段妖魅赤裸的七层纱之舞，希律王大悦，答应满足莎乐美提出的一切请求。莎乐美淡淡地说，请把施洗约翰的头颅放在盘子里，拿来给我。 本片改编自英国19世纪最富盛名的剧作家奥斯卡·王尔德的同名戏剧作品《莎乐美》，将《圣经·新约》中那段纠缠在极端与扭曲中的危情虐恋，在极度精美而极富形式感的画面与光影中，狂舞不止，直至死亡。
Scared of life and lacking the courage to be himself, Ludovico lives hidden away in his grandmother's old apartment. One night, the wickedness of the world goes to visit him in the form of Jack, a boy who is Ludovico's age but has the opposite character hard, determined, perhaps criminal. The forced cohabitation of two human beings who couldn't seem more different from one another turns into an initiation rite to adulthood, the discovery of their true and respective personalities. And when the harsh reality that is mercilessly stalking them appears to present the bill, they will have to face it, bolstered by a new awareness and unhoped-for courage.
