吻乐队
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: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.
瑞查德马克斯
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:喜儿因为他的丈夫阿圣患病被切开喉管,只能依靠呼吸机延续生命,住院医治半年多时间,花光了家里的所有积蓄,为借钱继续救治阿圣,喜儿走投无路,想出谁能借钱就把自己改嫁给谁的办法,向光棍村友柱子借了2万元钱,又和老村长商议用同样的办法找失去妻子的村友王富贵借了2万元钱,但这钱只够缴清欠医院的住院费和医药费,无奈之下,喜痛苦的决定放弃了阿圣的治疗。医院拔掉了呼吸机管子,换上必须手动24小时按压的简易呼吸器来维持阿圣的呼吸,医生告诉喜儿要有心理准备,阿圣随时可能出现病并发症,导致生命终结,绝望的喜只好将阿圣带回家……村友王富贵提出研制“自行车版的山寨呼吸机”,来替代村友轮流为阿圣按压呼吸球的想法遭到了柱子的极力反对以及其他村友们的嘲笑。阿圣父亲过江时意外死亡在钢索上,让王富贵、柱子、老村长、阿圣的妈妈和村友们在死神降临阿圣之前,每个人的内心深处都有了自己清晰的界限……