十位导演拍摄的十部短片，国产每一段基于一部歌剧的一首咏叹调。详细目录如下：国产Robert Altman (segment "Les Boréades")Bruce Beresford (segment "Die tote Stadt")Bill Bryden (segment "I pagliacci")Jean-Luc Godard (segment "Armide")Derek Jarman (segment "Depuis le jour")Franc Roddam (segment "Liebestod")Nicolas Roeg (segment "Un ballo in maschera")Ken Russell (segment "Nessun dorma")Charles Sturridge (segment "La virgine degli angeli")Julien Temple (segment "Rigoletto")
金木一
回复 :The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate, and begins to suspect that his new manager has designs not only on his wife but on his business. Meanwhile, someone from the new manager's past shows up with information that could wreck his plans.
傅佩嘉
回复 :由杜拉斯和影星热拉尔·德帕迪约扮演的两个角色坐在门窗紧闭的房间里，杜拉斯讲述着一部电影，电影里的女人搭上一辆卡车，与司机滔滔不绝地聊了一个小时二十分钟。谈话不时切换到卡车绕着巴黎行驶和停下来让女人搭顺风车的镜头。德帕迪约就是卡车司机，杜拉斯就是搭车的女人。对一部潜在电影的口头描述和电影可能形成的图像两者并置起来。
小紫荆儿童合唱团
回复 :倾覆沉没的钻井平台，顺流直冲的运油车头，直坠入海的满载客机。交通海上应急反应特勤队队长高谦（彭于晏 饰）、机长方宇凌（辛芷蕾 饰）和绞车手赵呈（王彦霖 饰）一次次带领队伍第一时间抵达，站在水火咆哮的最前面，守在危急撤离的最后面，用生命对抗天灾人祸。但在自然面前，特勤员毕竟没有超能力，血肉之躯踩在死亡边缘，真实的恐惧无数次让这些斗士颤抖、无助和气馁。而海上救援的字典里没有“退缩”。当你听见旋翼的轰鸣、洪亮的汽笛、马达的飞驰，那是他们无惧艰难险阻，舍己为人，谱写的一曲英雄之歌。
