美国新英格兰地区的普德顿大学流传着一个名为“斯坦利堂大屠杀”的恐怖传奇，话说25年前，一名异常心理学教授在斯坦利堂大开杀戒随后自杀，这起血腥惨案至今在学生中间广为流传。适值此时，校园内发生一连串的凶杀案。校报记者保罗·加德纳（杰拉德·莱托 Jared Leto 饰）坚信凶手就隐藏在校园内，他的朋友之一娜塔莎·西蒙（艾丽西亚·维特Alicia Witt 饰）更将此事与斯坦礼堂大屠杀联系起来。他们二人携手调查此事，在这一过程中，他们的朋友借二连三遇难。娜塔莎吃惊地意识到，她和保罗已经进入凶手设下的狩猎陷阱之中。越逼近真相，危险便离他们越近……
芭芭拉史翠姗
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 :纽约的城市图景，并行的是现实中艾克曼倾读母亲来信的段片。信是居住在比利时的母亲写来的。艾克曼这部早期的实验电影，是对他乡旅人的距离的最好的描述。
回复 :秦家宝（杜德伟 饰）留学归来进入了戴大力（林立三 饰）的设计公司工作，一次偶然中，秦家宝结识了查小桑（叶童 饰）和洛奇（钟楚红 饰）两位美丽女子。查小桑的大姑姐（李琳琳 饰）将一表人才的博士陈国新介绍给查小桑认识，希望两人能够走到一起，然而查小桑显然对这位博士没有什么兴趣。洛奇想要找戴大力假扮查小桑的男友以推脱这门亲事，没想到在误打误撞之中找来了秦家宝，早前秦家宝和查小桑之间发生了一切误会，通过这一契机，误会消解，随着时间的推移，两人之间竟然渐渐产生了真挚的情谊。可是，他们却都选择将这份感情偷偷藏在心底。
