通过两位女性1960年代到1970年代的生活，大都Varda构筑了一部女性主义的历史。故事描述了两位迥异的妇女15年的关系。她们都体会到了西蒙娜·波伏娃的那句名言：大都“女人并非生来就是女人，她们是后来变成女人的。”Pauline城市中的中产阶级女孩。与其家庭的传统保守大相径庭，她17岁时离家立志要做个歌手。Suzanne年纪稍大些，是个农村姑娘，她的情人自杀了。她独自带着两个私生子，第三个也快要出生了。尽管两个女性没有多少共同之处，她们却仍然相处融洽。后来她们被迫分开了。Suzanne去了法国南部，建立了一个家庭计划中心。Pauline则组织了一个女性的吟游乐队，以她们的歌曲促使人们觉醒。多年以后，Pauline和Suzanne在一个争取堕胎权利的集会上又相遇了。她们重新回到从前。
回复 :刚毕业的医学院学生保本（加山雄三 Yuzo Kayama 饰），在父亲的介绍下，来到穷乡僻壤的小石川诊所实习。他的老师是一位被称作红胡子（三船敏郎 Toshiro Mifune 饰）的古怪医师。起初，向往长崎的保本对这个贫民窟厌恶之极，并迁怒于红胡子，觉得自己受骗上当，无用武之地。红胡子是这里远近闻名的杏林高手，他没有对保本提什么要求，而是默默地行医，不畏权贵，不计酬劳，手下治愈的病人不计其数，其中包括因受虐精神失常的少妇（香川京子 Kyôko Kagawa 饰），因酗酒导致半身麻木的醉汉，因被贩卖至青楼身患性病的雏妓等等。在协助红胡子救死扶伤的过程中，保本逐渐发现了医德的重要，并修正了自己的人生态度……
回复 :Four families in a Heartland town are tested in a single day when a tornado hits, forcing paths to cross and redefining the meaning of survival.
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回复 :Siddartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee) is forced to discontinue his medical studies due to unexpected and brutal death of his father. He has to now find a job in stead. In one job interview, he is asked to name the most significant world event in the last ten years. His reply is 'the plain human courage shown by the people of Vietnam', instead of the expected - man landing on moon. The interviewer asks is he is a communist. Needles to say that he does not get the job.He reaches a coffee shop where he is offered to work for the communist party. When he does not show any interest the party leader tells him about an opening for a medical representative. To escape from the heat and have a snooze, he goes in to a cinema. As a government propaganda newsreel is being shown before the feature, a bomb explodes in the cinema hall. In the stampede that follows, Siddartha, breaks his watch. He goes to a watchmaker but he cannot afford the repairs.Waiting to cross the road, he notices a sexy girl. He drifts back to his days as a medical student in a flashback. The professor is explaining anatomy of female breast. Many flashbacks and dreams occur to Siddartha through the film.On his way to hostel, he has an encounter with some hippies. Along with an ex-classmate, he goes out to see a porn film but to their disappointment, the film turns out to be not-so-pornographic.In such constant wandering in a Calcutta, disintegrated relationships with his sister and a Naxalite (militant communist) brother, his friendship with Keya is only thing that keeps him sane.Keya is a simple girl. They enjoy each other's company but they cannot make any commitment to each other due to the circumstances.After yet another attempt at a job interview, Siddartha leaves the big city to take a modest job of a salesman in a far off small town. He writes to Keya that he still cherishes their relationship. And that he has heard that bird call again but this time it is for real, and not his mind. After completing the letter, he comes out to the balcony of his modest room. The bird calls again. He also hears the sombre chants of a funeral procession. As he turns to the camera, the picture is frozen.This is the first film of the Calcutta Trilogy. The other two were and Seemabaddha (Company Limited, 1971) and Jana Aranya (The Middle Man, 1975). All the three films study the effect the big city of Calcutta has on the educated youth and the price it extracts from them.The seventies were a difficult period for India and West Bengal. The Corruption was rampant; the Naxalite movement had created havoc in Calcutta. In fact, they had turned parts of Calcutta into 'liberated zones'. By the time the Naxalite movement died down, in 1975, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (then, Prime Minister of India) suppressed the fundamental rights and declared "Emergency" for her own political survival. Her son, Sanjay Gandhi became a dictator of sorts without any official designation. The opposition leaders were thrown into prisons.About his social responsibilities as a filmmaker, in an interview with Cineaste magazine, Ray commented, "You can see my attitude in The Adversary where you have two brothers. The younger brother is a Naxalite. There is no doubt that the elder brother admires the younger brother for his bravery and convictions. The film is not ambiguous about that. As a filmmaker, however, I was more interested in the elder brother because he is the vacillating character. As a psychological entity, as a human being with doubts, he is a more interesting character to me. The younger brother has already identified himself with a cause. That makes him part of a total attitude and makes him unimportant. The Naxalite movement takes over. He, as a person, becomes insignificant."In a letter to Seton in 1970, Ray wrote that Pratidwandi was the most provocative film he had made till then. The film is said to have evoked extreme reactions. "People either loved the film or hated it", Dhritiman Chatterjee told Andrew Robinson, Ray's biographer.
