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　　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.

　　一对新婚夫妻，面对买房热，考虑再三也加入了看房的大军中。妻子（尹媗  饰）一开始看中的是一套两居室，无论是价格还是适用性，这套房子都很适合这个小家庭。可是在周围人的影响和自己的虚荣心作用下，妻子竟又将目光投向了郊区的别墅。这对工薪阶层的二人来说无疑太过昂过，只是在妻子的一再坚持下，丈夫（王飞 饰）也就勉强同意了。交了首付后，二人还有巨额的房贷需要还，经济压力巨大，二人不得不在房子装修之前就搬进了别墅。妻子发现现实的生活与她的想象差距甚远：住在毛坯房里吃着泡面；忍受小区内其他人不友好的眼光；就连上班也变成了一件困难的事……夫妻由此沦为房奴，他们要如何摆脱这泥沼般的生活？

　　少女藤木美奈斗（堀北真希 饰）有一个无话不谈的笔友奈特（意为“骑士”），生活中发生的大小事她都与之倾诉。在士多店打工的美奈这天遇见了男生唐泽秀（石田卓也 饰）并一见钟情。阿秀热爱摄影，却迫于医学家族的压力一直努力考取大学医学专业，两度落榜的他还在苦闷地奋斗中。阿斗将自己的倾心告诉奈特，却被奈特反对。然而阿斗这次仍然听取了自己的心意，向阿秀表白。
　　在二人交往的过程中，阿斗发现自己会突然消失记忆，甚至手机中存储的阿秀的照片以及号码都会不见。困惑的她怕被阿秀嫌弃，一直保守着这个秘密。随着失忆的情况发生次数越来越多，阿斗鼓励她去他父亲的医院检查。检查结果出来后，阿斗却提出了分手。
　　伤心的阿秀接受了这个结局，她渴望这时能见到奈特，得到奈特真人的慰藉。然而无论她如何苦等，奈特也没有出现，直到这晚，她得到一串钥匙，当她启开秘密的大门，惊讶地发现了奈特是谁。

　　书生宁采臣（张国荣饰）收账不成，无处可归，遂夜宿鬼寺兰若寺，遇上侠士燕赤霞（午马饰），二人成为邻居。一日偶遇艳女小倩（王祖贤饰），二人两情相悦，但小倩乃是被树妖姥姥控制的鬼魂，专门迷惑精壮男子代姥姥吸取阳气。小倩见宁采臣心地善良不忍加害，并与他感情逐渐加深。宁采臣欲救小倩脱离姥姥魔掌，但苦于姥姥功力深厚，小倩无法脱离其魔掌。二人遂向燕赤霞求救......

　　安静走进大学后与转学来的插班生余洛同班。余洛的学习成绩和帅气的文艺气质深深吸引着安静，安静选择一种静守的方式喜欢着余洛。梦的美好总是没有那么完整。陆茗雪的突然出现，悄然中让安静的内心荡起了波澜，余洛对陆茗雪的注视也随之打破了原有的宁静，庆幸的是安静身边还有方木和盛楠的陪伴。时光易逝，岁月飞溅，大学生活里的欢喜悲忧他们用青春的代价为自己年轻懵懂买单，尽管都遍体鳞伤也坚守住心里的那一份最纯真的美。老天总是喜欢开玩笑，大学毕业后余洛向陆茗雪表白后，第二天陆茗雪信息回应，但陆茗雪因父母生意原因必须即刻离开，慌忙中陆茗雪手机掉在车轮下压坏，余洛从此失去了陆茗雪的消息…

　　A German woman goes to the town on the Red Sea where her Arab lover has just died. Beyond a simple story of mourning, the invention of an eerie port town by this young Jordanian filmmaker has Durassian echoes: the death of both a man and a city. The odyssey concludes in a hotel bar, backed by a popular Middle Eastern song.

　　贫苦的冉·阿让（休·杰克曼 Hugh Jackman 饰）为了挨饿的孩子去偷面包，结果被判处19年的苦役。出狱后，走投无路的他偷走了收留他过夜的主教的银器潜逃，被警察捉回。主教声称银器是送给他的，使他免于被捕。主教的言行感化了他，他化名马德兰，从此洗心革面奋发向上开始新生活。但缉拿过他的警长沙威（罗素·克劳 Russell Crowe 饰）却一心要找他麻烦。在得知了芳汀（安妮·海瑟薇 Anne Hathaway 饰）的悲惨遭遇后，他承诺照顾她的私生女柯赛特（阿曼达·塞弗里德 Amanda Seyfried 饰）。八年后，柯赛特爱上了共和派青年马利尤斯（埃迪·雷德梅恩 Eddie Redmayne 饰），轰轰烈烈的巴黎人民起义爆发了，无赖德纳迪埃（萨莎·拜伦·科恩 Sacha Baron Cohen 饰）和他又狭路相逢，而多年来从未放弃追捕他的沙威又出现在他的面前……

　　乔（彼得·穆兰 Peter Mullan 饰）是一个整日沉迷在酒精之中的男人，靠着失业救济金，过着非常糜烂的生活。终于有一天，乔发誓自己不要再这样颓废下去了，可很快他就发现，摆脱颓废的生活并不如自己想象中的那么简单，光是找到一份正经的工作赚钱养活自己这件事情，就够他折腾的了。
　　除了喝酒以外，乔唯一的兴趣爱好就是足球，他对足球的热情足以支撑他成为了全苏格兰最烂的足球队中的一员。与此同时，乔还在朋友家的辅导聚会里邂逅了名叫莎拉（路易丝·古达尔 Louise Goodall 饰）的社工，她的存在能否成为乔回归正常生活的强有力的助力呢？

　　富家女沈木兮父母去世，只得在酒吧驻唱补贴家用。富豪季遇白对她一见钟情，被沈木兮拒绝。沈木兮的弟弟被索要巨额赔偿，沈木兮无力偿还，向季遇白求助。季遇白同意帮助沈木兮，但是要沈木兮和他在一起一年，沈木兮忍辱负重答应了要求。季遇白对沈木兮百般照顾，沈木兮渐渐对季遇白产生了好感。麦思明追求沈木兮被拒，不断骚扰沈木兮，季遇白在现场向沈木兮表白，澄清麦思明的诬陷。事后，季遇白却告诉沈木兮他并没有爱上她，他们之间只有契约关系。原来季遇白青梅竹马的女友意外过世让他深受打击，他想在沈木兮身上偿还对前女友的亏欠，而不想承认他对沈木兮产生的感情。经历曲折，季遇白走出了过去的阴霾，两人终于走到了一起

　　苏珊娜于二战后返回从集中营回到已成废墟的柏林，却发现她的公寓里住了其他人，即汉斯•默滕斯医生。他被战争弄得消极不堪，酗酒成性。苏珊娜叫他离开，但对方不想走，于是他们在苏珊娜的公寓里合住起来，甚至开始对彼此产生好感，直至相爱。这稍稍鼓舞了默滕斯，然后他得知布吕克纳上尉还活着，并且就住在柏林。布吕克纳上尉在二战中是他的头头，他在圣诞节那天曾经下令杀害一百多条无辜性命，包括许多妇女和孩子……
　　该片位列最伟大的一百部德国电影第六位。

　　一个出身中下阶层的男爵，在他只有8岁的时候，蹲在河边看见前来视察灾荒的国王，一个人远离侍卫，孤零零的站在河水泛滥的岸边。这个男孩感受到了国王的寂寞，他对自己发誓，长大以后要到国王的身边，去帮助他。国王的队伍离开后，小男孩把一块石头放进鞋子里，坚持徒步走回家去。他以这种方式和国王一起受难。以这种方式企图接近那个在他眼里伟大的灵魂。这是君主制下最美丽的一个瞬间。多年以后当小男孩成为男爵，成为国王身边的第一侍卫。他的信仰轻易的被一场肮脏的赐婚击得粉碎。他离开国王，离开世俗的生活，成为一名隐居苦寒之地的教士。他从一种信仰之中跌落，在另一种信仰之中，将一块更大的、更为尖锐的石头放进了朝圣者的鞋子。

　　Charlie, a young aristocrat in turn of the century England, meets a boy named Frank on the road to Portsmouth. What Charlie doesn't realize is that Frank is actually Frances, who's donned a disguise to escape working at a brothel. Charlie takes Frank/Frances into his home, and when he discovers her true identity, the two become lovers. He sends her to London to be trained by his mistress in the art of sex, but she learns much more about her identity as a woman. Before the opening credits, explicitly on-screen it reads: "Based on the famous Victorian erotic novel by an anonymous writer".