20世纪七十年代，视频罗杰（朗·里维斯顿 Ron Livingston 饰）与卡罗琳（莉莉·泰勒 Lili Taylor 饰）两夫妇带着他们五个可爱美丽的女儿，视频搬到了位于罗德岛哈瑞斯维尔的一幢旧宅居住。房屋虽然古旧沧桑，历史悠久，但是却让佩隆一家体会到回归田园的快乐与喜悦。谁知好景不长，接二连三的怪异事件相继出现，令女孩们惊声尖叫，也让佩隆夫妇的神经绷到极点。为此，他们辗转找到当时最负盛名的沃伦夫妇。丈夫埃德（帕特里克·威尔森 Patrick Wilson 饰）是天主教会唯一认可的驱魔师，妻子洛琳（维拉·法米加 Vera Farmiga 饰）则拥有窥见灵体的能力。他们不费吹灰之力便确定这座阴气十足的大房子的症结所在，而为了征得教会除灵的许可，他们必须深入期间搜集恶灵存在的证据……
娜塔莉安博莉亚
回复 :故事讲述4个遭遇中年危机的老友一起逃离沉闷的生活，来一场堕落的聚会……理查德、罗恩、提姆和乔纳森自从大学时代开始就是好朋友。他们每年都会找出一个周末来办一个派对，以庆祝他们之间的友谊，并和好便宜保持联系。在表面上，这四个好朋友和所有人一样普通而且正常：他们都有自己的工作和家庭，都有自己的责任和义务。可是，当着四个男人聚在一起的表面上搞"联谊"的时候，他们却在一起进行"堕落的享受"。在聚会上，美女、酒精和毒品轮番上阵，而这四个男人似乎也能从中找到快乐。只不过，这种享乐的行为终将会为他们惹来不小的麻烦。
江一燕
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.
渡边健二
回复 :马丁·斯科塞斯的学生作业
