简介：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.
简介：Based on a true story of a renowned French gangster of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, “Freedom” tells the story of Bruno Sulak, a highly charming criminal à la Arsène Lupin who orchestrated daring heists without firing a single shot.
简介：故事发生在美丽的巴塞罗那，美国女孩维姬（丽贝卡·豪尔 Rebecca Hall 饰）和克里斯蒂娜（斯嘉丽·约翰逊 Scarlett Johansson 饰）在度假时认识了名声并不太好的艺术家胡安（哈维尔·巴登 Javier Bardem 饰）。性格迥异的两姐妹在第二次遇到胡安后，对于胡安结伴去奥维耶多过周末的的邀请，热情奔放的克里斯蒂娜一下子就爽快答应了，而即将结婚的维姬却感到深深的不安。奥维耶多发生了让人意想不到的事情，原本应该和胡安一夜春宵的克里斯蒂娜因病躺在床上休息，而理智现实的维姬却和胡安一夜风流。当三个人再次回到巴塞罗那之后，维姬的未婚夫道格前来陪伴她，维姬的生活似乎归于平静。而当克里斯蒂娜开始了与胡安热恋并同居的生活之时，胡安的前妻玛丽娅（佩内洛普·克鲁兹 Penélope Cruz 饰）突然出现，这三人之间构筑起一种奇特的关系。于是在盛夏的充满浪漫气息的欧洲名城，一段诙谐而又深刻的关于爱的故事拉开了序幕。在2009年第81届奥斯卡上，佩内洛普·克鲁兹凭借此片获得最佳女配角奖。
简介：纽约港的码头上，以约翰尼为首的黑社会势力无情地压迫着码头工人们。曾经是拳击手的特里（马龙·白兰度 Marlon Brando 饰）来到码头为约翰尼工作。他的朋友乔伊因为向犯罪委员会揭发约翰尼等人的罪行，被其手下，也是特里的哥哥查理从楼顶上推下摔死。乔伊的妹妹伊迪（爱娃·玛丽·森特 Eva Marie Saint 饰）发誓要为哥哥复仇，与教区牧师巴里神父一起展开调查。知情人都不敢出面告发。特里也目睹了乔伊被害的经过，虽然同情伊迪的遭遇，想要帮她逃离黑社会的迫害，但他没有告发哥哥的罪行。在与伊迪的接触中，两人渐渐产生感情。当伊迪得知他是杀害哥哥的帮凶，她拒绝了他。之后哥哥也为了救特里而被约翰尼杀害。无数罪恶的事件让特里决心去揭发约翰尼的罪行。在码头上他被约翰尼的手下打成重伤，神父和伊迪赶来支持他，一直沉默的码头工人们也觉醒了，他们团结在一起，为了正义抗争。本片获第27届奥斯卡最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳故事剧本、最佳男主角等8项大奖。