坐落于美丽乡间的圣·崔尼安女子学院，寒门是一所臭名昭著的学校。女校长卡米拉·弗里敦（鲁波特·埃沃雷特 Rupert Everett 饰）癫狂夸张，寒门特立独行。有道是上梁不正下梁歪，连带着其手下的员工和学生也一个个粗暴无行、乖张无比。好在卡米拉极力提倡自由与个性，因此这里宛如女孩们的无上天堂。某天，卡米拉的侄女安娜贝尔（妲露拉·莱莉 Talulah Riley 饰）被他的父亲（鲁波特·埃沃雷特 Rupert Everett 饰）强令转学至此，这个乖乖女受到同学和老师的好一阵捉弄，几近崩溃。与此同时，古板的教育部长乔夫雷（科林·费尔斯 Colin Firth 饰）决心改革糟糕的教育现状，而圣•崔尼安正是首当其冲的整改对象。自由的天堂危在旦夕，女孩们不愿坐以待毙，甚至连安娜贝尔也参与到这场拯救学校的战争中来……
回复 :戴夫（伊尔凡·汗饰）是公司的黄金推销员，一直同美丽的妻子瑞娜（基尔蒂·库尔哈丽饰）过着不咸不淡的日子，辛苦而又沉闷。一天，老板宣布由戴夫挂帅公司新产品——新型卫生纸的销售战役，各种准备工作紧锣密鼓地展开；同时戴夫提前回家想给老婆一个惊喜，不料撞到家中的私情，戴夫决定勒索老婆的情人以应生活之需。于是，销售战役和勒索行动两条线索交叉展开，各种笑料精彩纷呈。
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 :《你追我赶》是一部围绕一对民工讨债过程中的种种遭遇而展开的爆笑故事片。
