已故知名电影配乐师约翰·约翰逊执导、日韩蒂尔达·斯文顿旁白的纪录片《Last and First Men》入围今年#柏林电影节#特别展映单元。影片聚焦铁托时期南斯拉夫多留下的巨大建筑“Spomeniks”,日韩体现了独特而复杂的美学和文化涵义。约翰逊和摄影师Sturla Brandt Grøvlen一起去到当地,在拂晓或黄昏时间,以天空为背景、黑白画面拍摄展现建筑的样子。
已故知名电影配乐师约翰·约翰逊执导、日韩蒂尔达·斯文顿旁白的纪录片《Last and First Men》入围今年#柏林电影节#特别展映单元。影片聚焦铁托时期南斯拉夫多留下的巨大建筑“Spomeniks”,日韩体现了独特而复杂的美学和文化涵义。约翰逊和摄影师Sturla Brandt Grøvlen一起去到当地,在拂晓或黄昏时间,以天空为背景、黑白画面拍摄展现建筑的样子。
回复 :60年代初,从美国留学回来的科学院博士耿尔满怀报国热忱,有一天在外文书店碰到了纺织女工薛晴。他被薛晴的的美丽和质朴吸引,薛晴也被耿尔的才华所折服。两个人都沉浸在幸福当中的时候,文革开始了。薛晴受到了种种政治上的冲击,耿尔则被下放参加劳动。有人给耿尔介绍了一个对象,桂林的小学老师小金。他们见面了,觉得很满意,渐渐地也相爱了。但是由于家庭出身的原因,他们两个还是不能结合。很多年后,当耿尔再见到薛晴的时候,她已经是个中年妇女了。小金也出现了,但是她已经嫁给了一个她不爱的人
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 :一部极其感人的纪录电影《积存时间的生活》,日本导演伏原健之拍摄,由日本影后树木希林担任旁白,日本现代陶渊明津端夫妇生活纪录片。藉由津端修一夫妇丰富的生活阅历,一幢深居林间的小屋,探索那些深藏于时间长河中的真正瑰宝。一部极其感人的纪录电影,由新闻工作出身的日本导演伏原健之拍摄,他在三顾茅庐后,终以四封信获得隐居山林建筑师津端修一与英子夫妇点头「我们愿意协助」,开始著手拍摄这部电影。一幢深居林间的小屋,位于日本高藏寺新城的一隅。那是建筑师津端修一、按著其师安东尼雷蒙德自豪的木造住宅所建成的。一年四季景緻万千,庭园栽植的上百种蔬果,经由其妻英子的巧手都成了道道佳餚。不论烹饪、裁缝、耕作,没有一样能难得倒她。他们的家居处处充满体贴与用心,印证建筑大师科比意的名言「房子该是生活的藏宝盒」。津端修一曾任日本住宅公团首席建筑师,60年代便提出保留树林为风开道的理念,希望新的建案都能开始与自然共生,却不为当时以发展经济优先的政策所採纳,徒成一片片了无生气的集合住宅。他于是改从自身做起,不仅放下繁忙工作,并在住宅区购入土地、盖起房屋也种植了林木。在历经半世纪的时光后,两夫妇的勤奋与优雅,果然为这片淨土栽下了无数珍宝...