迷离Set inside a pre-war duplex in downtown Manhattan, The Humans follows the course of an evening in which the Blake family gathers to celebrate Thanksgiving. As darkness falls outside the crumbling building, mysterious things start to go bump in the night and family tensions reach a boiling point
渡边健二
回复 :转自：http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/2010/views-from-the-avant-garde-friday-october-1/views-from-the-avant-garde-jean-marie-straub“The end of paradise on earth.”—Jean-Marie StraubThe 33rd verse and last chant of “paradise” in Dante’s Divine Comedy. The film starts with verse 67, “O somma luce…” and continues to the end. “O Somma luce” recalls the first words uttered by Empedocles in Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s 1987 The Death of Empedocles—“O himmlisch Licht!…” (O heavenly light!). This extract from Hölderlin’s text is also inserted into their 1989 film Cézanne.“O somma luce” invokes utopia, or better still “u-topos,” Dante, Holderlin, Cézanne… the camera movement, recalling Sisyphus, in the film’s long shots, suggests its difficulty.In O somma luce, with Giorgio Passerone’s Dante and the verse that concluded the Divine Comedy, we find at the extremity of its possibilities, the almost happy speech of a man who has just left earthly paradise, who tries to fully realize the potential of his nature. Between the two we find the story of the world. The first Jean-Marie Straub film shot in HD.So singular are the textual working methods of Straub-Huillet, and now Straub on his own, that it is hard to grasp how far reaching they are. Direction is a matter of words and speech, not emotions and action. Nothing happens at the edges, everything is at the core and shines from there alone.During the rehearsals we sense a slow process by which ingredients (a text, actors, an intuition) progress towards cohesiveness. It is, forgive the comparison, like the kneading of dough. It is the assembling and working of something until it becomes something else… and, in this case, starts to shine. Actually it’s very simple, it’s just a question of opening up to the light material that has been sealed up. Here, the process of kneading is to bring to life and then reveal. The material that is worked on is speech. So it is speech that becomes visible—nothing else. “Logos” comes to the cinema.The mise en scène of what words exactly?The process of revealing, “phainestai”; “phainomenon,” the phenomenon, is what take splace, what becomes visible to the eye.Is “Straubie” Greece?This mise en scène of speech, which goes beyond a close reading of the chosen text, is truly comes from a distant source.—Barbara Ulrich
张蔷
回复 :居住在法国北部城镇的弗莱迪（David Douche 饰）是一个无所事事的青年，他的母亲靠经营小餐馆为生，母亲的溺爱让弗莱迪根本不去考虑未来。他或者和三五好友骑着摩托车招摇过市，或者和女友玛莉（Marjorie Cottreel 饰）纵情享受与水之欢。在这个平静得近乎无聊的小镇，甚至死亡也无法激起太多涟漪。然而，一些阿拉伯移民却改变了弗莱迪的生活轨迹。张扬倔强的阿拉伯青年卡德（Kader Chaatouf 饰）主动向玛莉搭讪，这引起弗莱迪一伙强烈的不满……本片荣获1997年英国电影学院萨瑟兰郡奖、1997年戛纳电影节金相机奖特别提及、1997年芝加哥国际电影节国际影评人费比西奖、1997年欧洲电影节欧洲年度发现、1997年让维果最佳影片奖、1997年圣保罗国际电影节评委会奖。
王梦麟
回复 :阿迪是个有着百万富翁梦想的游戏玩家，塔拉的梦想却是想当个建筑师，两人有一个共同的信念，就是：傻瓜才会结婚。被彼此吸引的他们带着这个信念同居了，想在两人去国外之前好好享受爱情。同居期间发生了很多事情，有趣的、悲伤的、心酸的、浪漫的……到了离开的那一刻，两人却在选择职业还是爱情这个问题上开始迷茫。
