年过八十的父亲突然中风，成年艾曼纽在医院和家庭之间来回奔波，成年要面对罹患帕金森氏症的忧鬱母亲，跟父亲有暧昧关係的昔日情人还时不时跑出来乱。孩提时期的她总因父亲严厉的管教，恨不得将他杀掉，如今父亲竟向她提出请求：“请帮我了结这一切吧！”让她百感交集，陷入两难。面对垂垂老矣、生活已无法自理的父亲，她该帮助他完成杀死自己的心愿吗？改编自《池畔谋杀案》编剧艾曼纽贝尔南的同名小说，讲述她帮助父亲安乐死的亲身经历。安乐死往往牵涉到沉重又複杂的伦理道德与法律问题，在法国名导欧容的笔下却举重若轻，以轻盈叙事和幽默口吻，凝视父女生命中最深切的一段相处时光，细腻描绘为人子女内心的挣扎与不捨。苏菲玛索深情而内敛的演出，让这段悠长的告别更显真挚动人。
回复 :讲述二战史上日本本土的最后一天发生的情景。以2小时38分钟的篇幅全面描绘日本1945年8月15日向盟军投降的前前后后，是一部格局宏大的史诗巨片。日本1967年冈本喜八经典名作之一，《电影旬报》评选的日本百大佳片之一。影片结尾三船敏郎剖腹自杀一段情节的刻划堪称经典中的经典。由于影片是黑白的画面，当三船敏郎左至右横切腹部时，鲜血从喷涌而出的场面令人毛骨悚然，这个情节大约持续了10分钟左右，充分显示了日本军国主义的盲目性。
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 :关于“五角大楼文件”泄密案（Pentagon Papers）的新片《The Post》，将史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格、汤姆·汉克斯与梅丽尔·斯特里普聚到了一起。斯皮尔伯格将作为导演与制片人身份参与制作，而影片的男女主角分别是汉克斯与梅姨。这部吸引好莱坞三巨头首次合作的电影将在银幕上重现著名的“五角大楼文件”泄密案。1971年，一名国防部官员将美国政府卷入越南战争的机密文件通过《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》等媒体曝光，而在文件公开之前，美国国防部曾试图阻挠文件的曝光并以失败告终。“五角大楼文件”事件标志着尼克松领导的联邦政府名誉扫地的开始，随后爆发的水门事件直接导致尼克松政府倒台。《The Post》的主人公为“五角大楼文件”事件中发挥关键作用的《华盛顿邮报》的编辑本·布拉德利与出版人凯·格拉汉姆。汉克斯将饰演布拉德利，这个角色曾在讲述水门事件的经典影片《总统班底》中出现过，而格拉汉姆则由梅姨出演。斯皮尔伯格的安培林娱乐与20世纪福斯将共同负责融资制作。影片是斯皮尔伯格与汉克斯的第五次银幕合作，斯导现在正忙于《玩家一号》的后期制作，《The Post》何时开始制作还是未知数。
