黄斌和陆发是一个抢港,台游客的退役军人,宅男是一家强盗集团的成员,宅男在一次分赃不均的内讧后,二人潜逃香港。在港偷了黑狼的部分军火,二人几经辛苦才找到了一个买家大圈。没想到大圈知道货的来源后,在交易时黑吃黑,但并没得逞。在混乱中反被陆发把钱抢走。其后黑狼得悉,威胁截斌等人交出军火,否则他会向戴女友美枝下毒手,戴唯有答应。在黑狼手下的伏击下,连场大火拼亦随之展开,究竟戴斌能否救回美枝呢?
黄斌和陆发是一个抢港,台游客的退役军人,宅男是一家强盗集团的成员,宅男在一次分赃不均的内讧后,二人潜逃香港。在港偷了黑狼的部分军火,二人几经辛苦才找到了一个买家大圈。没想到大圈知道货的来源后,在交易时黑吃黑,但并没得逞。在混乱中反被陆发把钱抢走。其后黑狼得悉,威胁截斌等人交出军火,否则他会向戴女友美枝下毒手,戴唯有答应。在黑狼手下的伏击下,连场大火拼亦随之展开,究竟戴斌能否救回美枝呢?
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 :Married carnival performers are subjected to the abuses of their employer in this silent film gem that has not received as much attention as it deserves. When the boss' unwanted advances on the wife are refused, he taunts a lion until it nearly kills her. But the other performers assist in a unique plot for revenge. Jaque Catelain directs and stars in this film made for influential French director Marcel L'Herbier's production company. Some sources also list L'Herbier as co-director, as he is credited here. The film boasts some rapid-fire editing techniques that were decades ahead of its time.
回复 :老妪娜巴特和丈夫伊斯坎德尔生活在远离村庄的偏远小屋。伊斯坎德尔曾是森林巡逻队队员,现在病重在家休养。而战争肆掠此地已久,他们的儿子也在前线牺牲了。老妪家唯一的经济来源是一头奶牛,她隔些日子会去村子里卖牛奶。战争的阴云笼罩着大地,村庄渐渐人去楼空,老妪的生活也举步维艰……《娜巴特》改编自阿塞拜疆导演Elchin Musaoglu在苏联解体时期听到的一则故事,首映于2014年威尼斯电影节地平线单元。