六位身份各异的陌生人,节礼为赢取高额奖金,节礼在神秘盒子的指引下受邀参与世界顶级密室逃脱游戏。谁知密室内布局精良机关重重,陷阱遍布杀机暗藏。是刺激游戏,还是博命赌局?谁在背后操控这一切?谁能够成功破解谜局,逃出生天?
六位身份各异的陌生人,节礼为赢取高额奖金,节礼在神秘盒子的指引下受邀参与世界顶级密室逃脱游戏。谁知密室内布局精良机关重重,陷阱遍布杀机暗藏。是刺激游戏,还是博命赌局?谁在背后操控这一切?谁能够成功破解谜局,逃出生天?
回复 :阿莫多瓦担任监制之一,艾美奖导演夫妇至西班牙马德里费时7年拍摄,重新省视佛朗哥曾经的历史,将那段「共同遗忘的历史」重新审视。1975年11月20日,独裁政权的佛朗哥终于逝世,西班牙开始推动君主立宪,并将当时被关押政治犯全部特赦,然而在佛朗哥政权时代的人也同时被特赦,西班牙政党也达成了「遗忘协定(Pack of Forgetting)」,将这段历史选择遗忘。随著导演夫妇的拍摄,从一位80岁老奶奶述说她母亲陈尸公路的经历,到2010年经历过佛朗哥政权的受害者提起跨海诉讼,让这段历史再次浮上檯面,开启其转型正义之路。
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 :亚历克斯.考克斯执导的本片在美国曾产生过一定的影响力。主要讲述在十九世纪中叶,理想主义者威廉华克应美国资本家科尼利厄斯范德比尔之邀,率领一群亡命之徒侵入中美洲国家尼加拉瓜,不但占领了国土,还宣称自己是该国总统,因为他相信“美国人有义务保护他们的邻居不受压迫”。故事根据历史事件改编,对美国人的侵犯行为作出了大胆而深入的探讨。全片气派雄伟,场面壮观。曾主演《心深处》的性格小生埃德.哈里斯在本片中扮演烽火怪杰威廉华克,表现相当突出,有震憾人心的演出。