影片讲述了空巢老人刘忠实苦苦等待儿子回家的故事。儿子刘晓义长大成人并在城里有了自己的家,忙碌的他却不曾留意家乡的父亲已日渐苍老,如山背影不在,而老人最大的安慰不过是一顿简单的团圆饭。影片意在呼吁社会关注“空巢老人”现象,提醒为人子女上善父母,给予不如陪伴,陪伴是最长情的爱。
影片讲述了空巢老人刘忠实苦苦等待儿子回家的故事。儿子刘晓义长大成人并在城里有了自己的家,忙碌的他却不曾留意家乡的父亲已日渐苍老,如山背影不在,而老人最大的安慰不过是一顿简单的团圆饭。影片意在呼吁社会关注“空巢老人”现象,提醒为人子女上善父母,给予不如陪伴,陪伴是最长情的爱。
回复 :安迪(史蒂夫•卡瑞尔 Steve Carell 饰)40岁了,有着高薪厚职的他过着平静的日子。然而,当他有一次和他的狐朋狗党聊天时无意中透露了自己还是处男的时候,麻烦来了。他的朋友们最急于的是如何介绍一个女孩给安迪好让他尽快摆脱处男身。虽然安迪自己也着急,但有些时候就是越急越乱。朋友们安排安迪去酒吧结识女孩,无奈安迪不能像其他人一样带着结识的女孩去兜风,因为他还不会驾驶。每次约会都笑料百出,安迪洋相尽出。安迪遇上了带着三个孩子的单亲妈妈翠西(凯瑟琳•基纳 Catherine Keener 饰),两人很快堕入爱河,安迪这次能否摆脱处男身?
回复 :1919年,俄国内战。为躲避战火,斯拜罗斯(Vassilis Kolovos 饰)带着妻子戴娜(Thalia Argirioua 饰)和一双儿女,随着难民潮辗转来到希腊。十几年过去,俄国难民不断聚集,最终形成一个名为“新敖德萨”的小村庄。斯拜罗斯的养女艾莉妮(Alexa ndra Aidini 饰)如今已长成落落大方的漂亮姑娘,并和心爱的小伙同时也是她的非血缘兄长埃里克西斯(Nikos Poursanidis 饰)生下一对双胞胎。为了逃避养父的控制与霸占,艾莉妮与爱人开始漫无止境的逃亡。时间进入1936年,一家人暂时得以安定。为追寻音乐梦想,埃里克西斯告别妻儿远赴美国。在此之后,战争统治着这个世界,也摧毁了艾莉妮苦心经营的家庭。在混乱的大时代的背景下,他们随波逐流,生离死别……本片是“希腊三部曲”第一部,并荣获2004年欧洲电影节国际影评人费比西奖。
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.