简介:"Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide"The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport both in their professional and daily lives between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps.The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial." -Steve Grayson"my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty." - Jonathan Rosenbaum
简介:过气演员诺玛(葛洛丽亚·斯旺森 Gloria Swanson 饰)已经将近50岁,曾经的风华绝代正在她居住的荒废豪宅里慢慢凋谢,身边只有好友马克思(埃里克·施特罗海姆Erich von Stroheim)伺奉。她没放弃重燃光辉的梦想,《莎乐美》的剧本正待编写,而逃避债务逃至此地的没落编剧乔(威廉·霍尔登 William Holden饰),正是这项事业的最佳候选。诺玛收留他住下,给他提供舒适的环境写作,并慢慢的倾心于他。但是,乔并不能接受这个青春已逝的妇人。他拒绝了她,并转过身和另一个美丽的女子谋划新的剧本,他们相爱,打得火热。诺玛得知了乔的“背叛”,她卑微地哀求他,却动摇不了他渐行渐远的心,诺玛终于举起枪对准正要离开的乔。
简介:1942年的德国,17岁的少年Friedrich(马克思·雷迈特 Max Riemelt 饰)努力训练自己,梦想有朝一日能够加入纳粹的训练营。在通过重重考试之后,他获得了机会,然而他的父亲却极力反对,于是他伪造父亲在文书上签名,成功成为了训练营的一名成员,开始了每天艰苦的训练。在其中,他认识了Albrecht(汤姆·希林 Tom Schilling 饰),一个德国军官的儿子,两人建立了深厚的友情。然而Albrecht却不热衷于纳粹,反而更喜欢文学和写作。Albrecht的父亲却希望儿子跟他一样,以后成为一名纳粹军官,两人矛盾不断。在训练营里,Friedrich和Albrecht发现了许多丑恶的现象,Friedrich的信仰开始有所动摇。而在一次水中训练中,Albrecht却再也没有从水中出来......本片获2003德国电影奖最佳原创剧本奖。
简介:继承父亲遗产后于职场中杀伐决断、有所建树的中年女总裁,在爱情面前放弃独善其身的人生信条,同年轻下属走入婚姻殿堂,婚后发现丈夫与妹妹的秘密情事后毅然放手成全——影片的情节,如今看来已是老生常谈,但若论真正让本片熠熠生辉的原因,除了对于“社会性别期待“等经久不衰的议题的讨论,不可忽视的是主角波琳·弗雷德里克(Pauline Frederick)风趣、干练而又感人至深的表演。童年时期父母离异后被母亲抚养长大的波琳,自小便确立了演艺事业的理想,二十岁时便已担任巡回演出剧目的主角,虽然波琳·弗雷德里克在32岁时才出演了自己的银幕处女作——由休·福特和埃德温·鲍特指导的《不朽城》(The Eternal City, 1915),但她依旧是最早前往好莱坞发展的百老汇明星之一,后来也成为了最早接演“有声片”(波琳曾接受系统的声乐、表演训练)的知名演员之一。事业方面可谓风光的波琳,感情生活却不尽人意,前后共经历了五次颠沛起伏的婚姻,在第五任丈夫(婚后不到一年内)和母亲相继逝世后,波琳也因罹患哮喘而离世。曲折而不平凡的人生经历也或许赋予了她一种表演中的特质,帮助她塑造了一位女性兼具泼辣和敏感的银幕形象。本片位列日本《电影旬报》1925年度十佳影片艺术类第六名。