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　　半纪录片半传奇小说的电视电影。

　　上了岁数的植物学家间宫周吉（菅井一郎 饰）及其家人住在北镰仓一带，长子康一（笠智衆 饰）是东京某医院的医生，女儿纪子（原节子 饰）在东京丸内贸易公司供职，担任经理佐竹宗太郎（佐野周二 饰）的秘书。
　　年轻貌美、落落大方的纪子已到适婚年龄，周围的好友也都相继成家，她却依旧待字闺中。父母兄长为了纪子的婚事各自用心，佐竹经理亦将出身名门的前辈真锅介绍给她。但是，纪子却独独倾心哥哥的同事矢部谦吉（二本柳寛 饰）——一个丧偶带着三岁女儿且捉襟见肘的男子……
　　本片荣获1952年蓝丝带最佳女主角（原节子）、最佳摄影、最佳导演和最佳女配角（杉村春子）等四项大奖；1952年电影旬报最佳影片；1952年每日电影最佳女主角和最佳影片。

　　River of Grass has all the elements of a conventional road movie: a car, a gun, criminal plans, and young lovers on the run from an angry father who also happens to be a suspended police officer. But writer and director Kelly Reichardt has instead taken these familiar elements and fashioned an anti-road movie, a deadpan film that is more existentialist comedy than crime drama. The young lovers in question are Cozy, the cop's daughter, and Lee Ray, a shady character from the wrong end of town. Lee Ray comes into possession of a pistol, and soon he and Cozy find themselves unintentionally involved in a shooting. Fearing capture by the law, the two make plans to leave town, committing a series of robberies on the way. However, they don't manage to get very far; indeed, the film's central premise is how the romantic myth of lovers on the lam proves disappointing in the face of a far more pedestrian reality. This well-received, low-budget indie was shot on location in South Florida, placing its story against an appropriately depressed landscape of sun-bleached strip malls, barren highways and overgrown, swampy fields; the title is another name for the Florida Everglades.

　　没心没肺的高中生三人组伊坂透（市原隼人 饰）、本部晓（柄本佑 饰）、玉城哲雄（平冈佑太 饰）及其青梅竹马南风原唯（井上真央 饰）生活在冲绳，被阳光和海水滋润，日子过得好不惬意。这样的生活因为透的一次邂逅而发生改变。在水族馆打工的透遇到了比他年纪大气质不一般的美女中村渚（伊藤步 饰），对其一见钟情。因为一次偶然，透和晓、哲雄等人去听了一场极受欢迎的Hip-Hop 的演唱会。乐队的主唱良间凉太（玉山铁二 饰）更是万人迷般的存在。在演出现场，透又再次看到了渚。被Hip-Hop吸引的三人，或者说为了女生想耍帅的三人，决定自己组建乐队，把其命名为“098”。
　　098乐队的组建正好赶上了一场乐队比赛，但结果却不如人意。失落的透又得知了心仪的美女渚就是万人迷凉太的女友。而这时哲雄也面临着升学的压力，被父亲要求离开乐队。098面临着解散的危机，究竟何去何从……

　　缅因州的夏天，事事变幻无常。鲸鱼再也不游近海岸，不象两位老寡妇姐妹年轻的时候。她们拥有一座海边住所，在这里她们已经度过了50个夏天。莉贝眼瞎了，看上去生命垂危；萨拉照看着她的姐姐，却对继续照顾她感到担心，对在她们海边钓鱼的一位俄罗斯老贵族也是三心二意。萨拉结婚46周年纪念日到了，俄国人送给她们一些钓到的鱼，萨拉则邀请他赴晚宴，莉贝也坐直了腰板。萨拉犹豫着现在是否到了卖掉这个地方，而给莉贝再找一处安身地方的时候了。这些老人们接下来还会有什么打算呢？

　　意大利人民反抗侵略，战争场面拍的相当宏大，各种优美流畅的长镜头，演员表演内敛自然，这部电影标志着意大利的电影人已经掌握了非常娴熟全面的电影技艺，被誉为当时意大利电影的最高成就丝毫不为过

　　知名摄影艺术家陈米在酒吧结识了少女罗琪，陈米因为对摄影艺术的执着，坚持要给罗琪拍照，过程中，二人不打不相识。后来，无意中陈米得知了罗琪的秘密，她患有罕见的病，再加上经纪人霍当午莫名的失踪，误惹怒集团大佬，一连环的追击，到最后，陈米愿意自我牺牲，救罗琪，而罗琪选择了原谅自己，放下过去，面对新的人生。

　　上个世纪70年代末80年代初的一个南方小城，一位名叫穆小旦的小姑娘与父母和弟弟同住在一个没有厕所的房子里，伴随着她的成长，如厕这样一个最简单基础的民生问题，成为穆小旦心中长久的隐痛与不堪，接近浪漫主义的执著追求。每天早晨，穆小旦必须去脏乱的公共厕所清理弟弟穆小生的痰盂，这一段并不遥远的路程是她生命中最为艰难羞愤的经历。而邻居家的一对姐妹花，竟然为了争夺一只马桶的率先使用权大打出手，从此姐妹之间数年没有开口说过一句话。
　　在一次青年朋友的聚会中，穆小旦发现了古子华家的厕所，一个闪闪发光的抽水马桶。从那天开始，穆小旦暗自下定了决心，她要拥有一间完全个人私密的厕所，哪怕是在情窦初开之际，也可暂且拒绝同城青年古子华的爱慕之意。一间厕所，是她和爱情平起平坐的内心重量。
　　经过挖空心思的努力，穆小旦的厕所终于奇迹般地建构起来了，与周遭琐碎、潦草的环境形成鲜明对比的，就是一只洁白耀眼的抽水马桶。在那个年代，一间私人厕所如同一个珍稀动物，邻居们蜂拥而至，言语间或羡慕，或赞赏。穆小旦把厕所当作了她的私人领地，关上门，她可以在这里换衣服，化妆，翻看彩色画报，在这个小小的天地气候里，她竭力维护着自己带有洁癖的个人尊严。
　　时间就这样过去了，三年，五年，十年。在一个暴雨的清晨，穆小旦上厕所的时候，临街的一堵墙突然消失了，这个曾经隐密优雅的空间又再次曝露在了众人的眼睛之下。厕所的墙究竟是怎么一回事，穆小旦一家人至今也没有弄明白。在这个过程中，一个北方男人冒失闯了进来，撒了一泡尿，还误认为这是一个收费厕所；一个江西女人观察多日，趁着天黑，抱着孩子在穆小旦的厕所里住了下来；邻居徐奶奶在厕所外面摆了个小摊，公然开始收费了；源源不断的陌生人就这样莫名其妙走进了穆小旦的厕所。
　　厕所的烦恼才告一段落，古子华又出现了，也许是成长让他褪变成了另一个人，穆小旦再次接受了这种忽明忽暗的感情，与日常的生活握手言和。貌似老实温和的古子华听从了穆小生的怂恿，等到所有人都睡着的时候，穿过厕所，回到了穆小旦的房间，以捍卫爱情的坚强理由在穆小旦身边侧躺了下来。

　　秋秋的父母在她6岁那年离了婚，母亲潘玉兰和名叫关正光的男人组成了家庭，而秋秋则跟着父亲阿满生活。因为非常的想念母亲，阿满将秋秋送到潘玉兰家，哪知道关正光突然返回家中，见到秋秋和潘玉兰产生了激烈的争吵，秋秋明白自己是这场争吵的核心，黯然的离开了母亲家。
　　工厂里的杨春娘爱上了老实肯干的阿满，两人最终走到了一起，阿满隐瞒了秋秋是自己女儿的事实，这一切让秋秋无意之中得知了，悲伤和失望之中，她选择了离家出走。秋秋被送到了乡下交给阿满的父母照料，但是两个老人年岁已高实在无力帮扶，秋秋只得又返回潘玉兰处。

伊根健是一家音像公司的抄谱员，他从小喜欢音乐，自己写了一首歌儿准备找个机会唱给公司的老板金古知听，可金古知一直认为他脑子有毛病、是一根筋，无论伊根健怎样商求，金古知就是不肯听他唱歌。为了实现自己的愿望，伊根健煞费苦心想出了美人计、苦肉计等很多办法，希望借此来感动金古知，不想弄巧成拙，被金古知开出了公司。最后，伊根健和妹妹商量在一个烂尾楼里搭建了一个舞台，将金古知骗到了这里，准备将歌唱出来。没想到，金古知死都不从。无奈之下，伊根健便绑架了他。最后，在家人和大家的劝说感动下，伊根健和老板终于冰释前嫌，将歌儿唱响了起来。

　　布达佩斯之夏，少年本该全力预备毕业考试，岂料在重重压力下难以专心，原来爱上了仅视他为好友的同学，对方却心仪已婚历史老师，加上视民主自由如洪水猛兽的父亲，官官相卫的校园文化，终如骨牌倒下。当年匈牙利力抗苏联入侵，今天大家似乎欢迎威权再现。亲历十月事件的老人记忆也变得模糊难辨，谁还可信，何可依赖？少年奋起响应，媒体介入，招来一发不可收拾的考试丑闻，俨如自杀。能解释所有崩坏之由者，唯崩坏自身而已？威尼斯地平线单元最佳电影。

　　In the time of Counter-Reformation, a miller and his son come under investigation by a priest of the Inquisition, when rumors spread that their prosperity comes from working with the Devil.
　　The Devil's Trap is a film directed by František Vlá?il, based on a novel by Alfréd Technik, adapted by František A. Dvorák and Miloš Kratochvíl. It was the first of three historical dramas that Vlá?il made during the Czech New Wave (technically he isn't really a part of the New Wave, however these films were made during the same era of artistic freedom), preceding his more well known Marketa Lazarová (1967) and Valley of the Bees (1968).
　　Set in the late 16th Century during the Catholic Reformation, in the Moravian Karst, situated in what is now the Eastern Czech Republic, it tells the tale of a miller (Vítezslav Vejrazka), and his son Jan (Vít Olmer), who come under suspicion and are investigated by a Jesuit priest of the Inquisition (Miroslav Macháchek), when rumors of witchcraft are spread by the local regent (Cestmír Randa), who is jealous of the miller's prosperity and degree of respect among the local populace.
　　As expected from Vlá?il, this film is a stunning experience all the way through. From the opening shot, an ominous manipulation of perspective with a close up of a mangled figure of Christ dominating the foreground against a tiny figure in black walking along the horizon, to the breathtaking confrontational finale inside the vast stalactite filled Karst caverns, it is a wonderful display of visual mastery.
　　Maybe not quite as impressive as Marketa Lazarová, but still full of astonishing imagery. As seen from unique angles and distinct points of view which highlight the director's remarkable sense of awareness of framing, motion, and positioning on the emotional and dramatic tone of the scene. The most memorable being a repeated shot where the camera is suspended and launched with speed through the air towards the miller's door.
　　The story here is a simple one and I would say more accessible than his later works. With a conventional structure emphasized as much by its plot and characters, than by its expressionistic cinematography or authentic historical detail. The events play out without much surprise, and there is a strong underlying, almost supernatural, mysterious aspect that is left unresolved, in fact barely explored, which is slightly disappointing, but only because it's so fascinating that I wish there was more.
　　Acting is great all around. Particularly the villains: Miroslav Macháchek as the priest, casting a sinister and imposing shadow wherever he goes, and Cestmír Randa as the weasel like regent behind all the persecution. While Vít Olmer brings a charismatic leading man presence in his role as the miller's son Jan, in love with the lovely orphan girl Martina (Karla Chadimová), who becomes a dangerous object of rivalry between Jan and other young men of the village.
　　The film also features the evocative music of Zden?k Liška (perhaps the most prolific composer of the Czech New Wave). In this his second of eleven collaborations with Vlá?il, his compositions are used sparingly, but to great effect, complimenting but never overpowering a scene. The best example of which can be heard in an amazingly shot celebration and dance sequence at the end of the second act.
　　The Devil's Trap might not be a masterpiece, but it is still a strong effort, with a fascinating straightforward story and a glorious historical setting captured beautifully by Vlá?il's unmistakable visual prowess. A fine work that would also be the perfect starter plate to prepare yourself for the challenging feast of Marketa Lazarová or The Valley of the Bees. It even has an easy to digest running time. It's therefore puzzling why this gem remains largely overlooked and ignored.