花花公子阿兰（莫里斯·荣内特 Maurice Ronet 饰）在疗养院中进行了六个月的戒酒治疗。疗养即将结束，杏吧杏但他并不能肯定自己是否痊愈。他通过看书、杏吧杏抽烟、写日记、把玩手枪、剪贴报纸上关于死亡的报道来平复内心的恐惧与忧伤。他和美国的妻子分居，同时又与妻子的朋友莉迪亚（莱娜·斯克尔拉 Léna Skerla 饰）纠缠在一起。莉迪亚要求阿兰与妻子摊牌，与她生活在一起，但阿兰拒绝了。回到疗养院，阿兰在医生的鼓励下决定试着重新融入社会，接触自己的朋友们。在巴黎，他开始拜访昔日的朋友，却发现今时的人们全都背叛了从前的社会观、政治观，变得矫揉造作，没有人能够理解他，甚至对他进行明嘲暗讽。阿兰心中刚刚燃起的积极信念彻底地被摧毁了，他无法掩饰对这个世界的厌恶，再次陷入绝望之中。阿兰最后一次把自己灌醉，醒来之后，收拾完房间和行李，接了一个电话，读完一本费兹罗杰的小说，他拿出手枪朝着自己的心脏开了一枪。本片获第28届威尼斯电影节评审团特别奖。
姜成民
回复 :公元700年左右，正义的魔法师默林（James A. Stephens 饰）带领徒弟巴尔萨泽（尼古拉斯·凯奇 Nicolas Cage 饰）、维萝妮卡（莫妮卡·贝鲁奇 Monica Bellucci 饰）、霍瓦斯与邪恶的女巫莫戛娜·洛菲（Alice Krige 饰）展开抗争。维萝妮卡为了封住女巫，而将莫戛娜的灵魂吞入自己的体内，并由巴尔萨泽将她们封印在玩偶中。默林死前，将一枚龙指环交给巴尔萨泽，嘱托他寻找默林英雄，将莫戛娜彻底消灭。此后的岁月里，巴尔萨泽走遍世界各地寻找默林英雄，却始终一无所获，直到他来到美国纽约。公元2000年，四年级小学生戴夫在纽约一间魔法店宿命地邂逅了巴尔萨泽，并得到龙指环的肯定。期间，他无意中释放了邪恶的霍瓦斯，引发一场巨大的混乱，戴夫也被同学们认为精神错乱。转眼十年，戴夫（Jay Baruchel 饰）已成长为帅气青年。童年的遭遇恍如一场噩梦，却在十年后再次袭来，他不得不遵照命运的指引，与女巫展开最后的抗争……
王栎鑫
回复 :巴黎鲁贝区的圣诞夜。警队队长德奥在区内巡逻。目睹被烧坏的汽车，暴力打架…… 每日面对的都是贫困、欺诈和求救等状况，德奥一眼便知道谁是谁非。路易刚从警察学院毕业，加入了德奥的小队。路易年轻又没有经验，很容易被人误导，经常误解所遇到的人和事。德奥和路易接报调查一名老妇被谋杀的案件。老妇邻居的两个年轻女子歌迪亚和玛莉被捕。她们是瘾君子、酒鬼和恋人……
苏芮
回复 :Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.
