本影片根据菲利普·K·迪克的短篇小说《规划小组（Adjustment Team）》改编。天生就适合走上政治舞台的大卫·诺里斯(马特·达蒙 Matt Damon 饰)，绝地是一名政坛的明日之星，绝地他在信心满满的参选纽约州参议员期间，意外认识了认识美丽的芭蕾女演员爱丽丝(艾米莉·布朗特 Emily Blunt 饰)，两人一见钟情，正当情意正浓时大卫突然被一群穿黑西装、戴黑帽和墨镜的神秘人士绑走。这群自称是隶属于联邦的人生命运调整局的人，告诉大卫他命里该当总统，伊丽丝也会成为世界著名的编舞家，他们的相爱会使两人的前途都成为泡影。规划局想尽一切方式阻止两人再次相遇。知道真相的大卫是会追求自己的梦想而放弃爱丽丝？还是为了真爱，对抗命运调整局呢？
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回复 :16岁的美丽少女阿贝尔（琳达·达内尔 Linda Darnell 饰）离开了让她倍感压抑的原生家庭，前往伦敦，投奔一个名叫布鲁斯（Jefferson Pascal 饰）男人。很快，这对小情侣就花光了所有的积蓄，为了维持生计，布鲁斯出海成为了一名走私犯，而阿贝尔则在误打误撞之中进了监狱，此时她震惊的发现，腹中已经怀上了布鲁斯的孩子。在强盗杰克（约翰·拉塞尔 John Russell 饰）的帮助之下，阿贝尔从监狱里逃了出来，之后被杰克卖到了剧院。在那里，阿贝尔邂逅了拉德克里夫公爵（理查德·格林尼 Richard Greene 饰），很快，两人结了婚，阿贝尔一跃成为了公爵夫人。就在这个节骨眼上，布鲁斯再度出现在了阿贝尔的面前，并且向她索要那个属于自己的孩子。
回复 :高中时代一连串刻骨铭心的经历，让原本就有些口吃的大男孩永岛杏平（冈田将生 饰）患上躁郁症，长久以来将自己封闭在隔绝的心灵空间内。在父亲（吹越满 饰）的介绍下，杏平进入一家遗物整理公司工作。该公司的主要任务就是负责进入去世很久却没被人发现的死者的房间，代替家属清理颇有些骇 人的现场，并整理死者的遗物。虽然让许多人心理上无法接受，可是杏平还是留了下来，和前辈佐相博（原田泰造 饰）、久保田雪（荣仓奈奈 饰）平静地对待每一位逝者。在这一过程中，高中的黑暗回忆不断袭上心头，而小雪那深藏心中的恐惧也意外迸发出来。两个各自蒙受创伤的人，能否携手找到未来前进的光明……本片是由佐田雅志根据真人真事改编而成的同名小说翻拍而成，荣获第35届蒙特利尔国际电影节创新奖。
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.
