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.
故事发生在五十年代初期,亚妮娜(夏洛特·甘斯布 Charlotte Gainsbourg 饰)被家人寄养在乡下婶婶家,那里日复一日的无聊生活让亚妮娜感到快要窒息了,她只有靠偷窃商店里的商品来找回一点点的刺激感。
亚妮娜的偷窃行为被发现了,为此,她不得不开始寻找一份正经的工作,就这样,她成为了盖隆夫妇家的女佣。某一天,亚妮娜邂逅了名为米歇尔(Didier Bezace 饰)的中年男子,虽然米歇尔已经有了家庭,但亚妮娜还是向他展开了热烈的攻势,没过多久,米歇尔就沦陷了。然而,此时的亚妮娜早已经有了新欢——一个名叫拉乌尔(西蒙德拉卜若思 Simon de La Brosse 饰)的扒手,不仅如此,亚妮娜的腹中还怀上了他的孩子。
谢尔盖·帕拉杰诺夫,1924年生于前苏联格鲁吉亚的第比利斯,父母都是亚美尼亚人。从小就显示出他对色彩的敏感和天神一般的绘画天赋。除了绘画,从小他就对电影和音乐有着浓厚的兴趣。1945年,他21岁,求学莫斯科是他一生的转折点。他进入俄罗斯电影学院(VGIK)导演系学习拍片。这是一个历史悠久的著名电影学校,为欧洲大陆贡献了大批电影大师。之后成为老师杜甫仁科的助手,杜甫仁科是苏联诗电影的祖先,塔尔科夫斯基和帕拉杰诺夫都得益于他的教诲。
根据俄罗斯作家莱蒙托夫的故事改编。一个游吟诗人在路途上花了一千个白天和黑夜,随时随地尽其所能为人们带来快乐。他的流动的生活方式看似毫无目的,其实不然。他希望在一千个日日夜夜之后,能够挣到足够的钱举办婚礼......如果新娘还在等他的话。
Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant's daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights - but not before he's got the daughter to promise not to marry till his return. It's told in typical Paradjanov style, in a series of visually ravishing 'tableaux vivants' overlaid with Turkish and Azerbaijani folksongs.
Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre's wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne's husband holds no excitement for her, and he is always away in Paris on business. Pierre is now the vice-mayor, thanks to Paul. Lucienne and Pierre have a secret meeting spot by a lake along a country lane. Pierre's wife dies suddenly, by suicide the town gossips believe. Pierre confesses otherwise to Lucienne. Paul proposes a shady land deal which will "benefit the town", and wants Pierre's political support and collusion. Then Paul discovers proof of his wife's affair...
Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening in this haunting vision of innocence lost. Based on the celebrated short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, the narrative debut from Joyce Chopra features a revelatory breakout performance by Laura Dern as Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family whose summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations is shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger (a memorably menacing Treat Williams). Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Smooth Talk captures the thrill and terror of adolescent sexual exploration as it transforms the conventions of a coming-of-age story into something altogether more troubling and profound.
科比(艾米利奥·艾斯特维兹 Emilio Estevez 饰)深陷感情的漩涡无法自拔;比利(罗伯·劳 Rob Lowe 饰)不安定的生活让妻子最终选择了带着孩子离开;凯文(安德鲁·麦卡锡 Andrew McCarthy 饰)苦苦的希望能够得到心上人的垂怜;朱尔斯(黛米·摩尔 Demi Moore 饰)的生活从来都谈不上什么一帆风顺;埃里克(贾德·尼尔森 Judd Nelson 饰)深爱着妻子却总也管不住自己的下半身;莱斯利(艾丽·西蒂 Ally Sheedy 饰)对凯文的深情似乎一无所知;温蒂(梅尔·温宁汉姆 Mare Winningham 饰)早已厌倦了什么都被拿来和优秀的妹妹作比较的生活。
七个走出了校园象牙塔的年轻人,他们所面对的现实世界是否如他们所想象的一样快乐和美好?面对无法回避的人生岔路口,他们会做出怎样的选择?又会谱写出怎样悲欢交织的精彩人生?
A Venetian musician at La Fenice theatre is affected by an incurable disease. By chance he meets his ex-wife who is now living with another man. She finally realizes that she is still in love with him.One of the most romantic films ever made and that still bears the pass of time despite some camera cliches of the 70's. Venice at its best is the setting for a poignant story of lovers parting for ever in a day's time. Sensitive and powerfully emotional, but never corny, with Musante and Bolkan as passional as you may wish lovers can be. A wonderful soundtrack and a beautiful cinematography help to make this film be a delight thirty-two years after it was made. Not to be missed.