在美国学生组织的一起关于反战和争取民主的学生革命运动中，春暖马克（马克•弗雷切特 Mark Frechette 饰）和同学、春暖老师一起被当局逮捕，在愈演愈烈的双方对抗中，马克打死了一名警察，当局即刻展开对他的追捕，马克在机场偷盗了一辆小型飞机后开始了逃亡之旅。在商业公司当秘书的达莉亚（达莉娅•斯普莱林 Daria Halprin 饰）正驱车前往菲尼克斯，途径沙漠的时候恰巧被马克发现，他从空中向她扔下一件红色的衣服。两人结伴同行，达莉亚答应开车带马克去找汽油，他们于路无话不谈，马克告诉她自己的那些革命经历，在一处名为“扎布里斯基角”的荒地里他们疯狂的亲昵。飞机加满油后马克将飞机画上奇怪又明艳的图案，并与达莉亚愉快地分手。达莉亚继续开车前往菲尼克斯，却收到了马克被警方击毙的消息……
董贞
回复 :这部迎合美国知识份子口味的影片一上市，即蠃得了美国公众的一致好评。导演本人亦藉此一举成名．该片讲述由斯坦顿饰演的洛杉矶青年奥图，他在失去工作之后，协助一个思想极为顽固的老头卖旧汽车，从而引发一连串情节离奇的事件。此片以其新颖独特的手法生动勾画出洛杉矶不同类型文化的人物形象，节奏明快，影像鲜明，深具时代艺术电影色彩。
自由勇
回复 :Celestine, the chambermaid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man. But Mr Lanlaire is not a right choice: all the house is firmly controlled by Mme Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, ex-officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive, and does not share his mother's anti-republicans opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and also Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity ? Will sinister and inflexible Joseph let his views upon Celestine be ruined ? A quite disillusioned depiction of humanity.
邱暐议
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.
