日韩Set inside a pre-war duplex in downtown Manhattan, The Humans follows the course of an evening in which the Blake family gathers to celebrate Thanksgiving. As darkness falls outside the crumbling building, mysterious things start to go bump in the night and family tensions reach a boiling point
伊莲佩吉
回复 :若い後妻を持った勇造に気づかって、高村家の由紀、しずか、チエ子の三人姉妹は秘に伊丹空港から長姉早苗の嫁先へ家出を決行した。美しい三人の前には早くも、羽田空港でポルシェを運転する青年が近づいた。末娘の現代っ子チエ子につられて、三人は車で早苗の団地にやって来た。狭い団地生活に、早苗は仕方なく貯金を出して、三人のためにアパートを貸りてやった。由紀としずかはデパートに、チエ子は試験に落ちて姉に内緒でアルサロ勤めを始めた。だが、いたずらに飲んだお酒がバレて、即日やめさせられる始末だ。そんなある日、由紀は幼馴染の矢坂次郎に会った。次郎はＴＶニュースのカメラマンであった。お互いに成長した姿を見た二人は、胸のときめきを感じた。その日から次郎は、時々アパートを訪れて姉妹と親しくなった。ある日三人姉妹と次郎それにチエ子の友達の健吉らは、スキーに出かけたが途中次郎は取材で由紀たちと別れた。淋しい思いをしていた由紀の前に偶然ポルシェの男、野沢圭一が現われ、四人を別荘に招待した。三人が帰京した翌日、勇造が妻弘子と喧嘩をしてやって来た。激しくののしって追い帰した由紀に、しずかは怒りを感じて次郎のアパートに走った。とまどう次郎は、しずかを下宿に置くと取材に出ていった。心配して次郎に相談に来た由紀は、しずかを見て嫉妬を感じた。旅行から帰った次郎は由紀に愛情を告白した。だがそんな由紀の前に、圭一がしばしば現われるようになった。豪華な雰囲気をもつ圭一に、由紀は巨絶出来ないものを感じていた。しずかはそんな由紀の態度に怒りを覚えた。数日後、由紀は圭一と婚約した。次郎は、慰めるしずかに「由紀ちゃんの気持は解る」と話して、酒をあをった。由紀が新婚旅行に発つ日、旅立つ次郎の跡を追うしずかの美しい青春の姿があった。
王凡瑞
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.
保罗安卡
回复 :A year in the life of a dying shopping mall.
