外语2024

　　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.

　　影片讲述了上世纪八十年代有关情怀与情欲相互交融，表面上平静似水，其深处却似灼热的岩浆随即喷发的情爱故事。哥哥由于意外而丧失男性功能，在现实各种压力的冲击下，成年后的弟弟和曾与之患难的嫂子发生了一段“爱情”。在那个年代，单纯的弟弟不可能与嫂子做出越轨之举，于是一场在哥哥、嫂子和弟弟之间的纯真“三角恋”，就在特定的生活中制造出了一个又一个复杂的充满情欲的戏剧性故事。

　　明万历年间，京城名妓杜十娘与进京应试的江南公子李甲相识。李甲得好友柳遇春帮忙，赎出十娘喜结百年之好。二人返乡经过瓜州，盐商孙富见十娘美貌，便约正为如何回家面对严父的李甲喝酒，劝其别为一青楼女子耽误前程。李甲愁苦无奈将十娘卖与孙富，十娘闻讯怒沉百宝箱，投江自尽。睡莲庵老尼救起十娘，留其带发修行。柳遇春高中后陪夫人至庵中还愿，与十娘相遇，携十娘回到苏州。李甲一路流浪到苏州，心中为十娘之死痛悔万分，不想巧遇柳遇春……

　　A cowboy competes with a gambling tycoon on the Barbary Coast for the hand of a beautiful dance-hall queen.

　　"Daughters of the Dust" tells the story of a family of African-Americans who have lived for many years on a Southern offshore island, and of how they come together one day in 1902 to celebrate their ancestors before some of them leave for the North. The film is narrated by an unborn child, and ancestors already dead also seem to be as present as the living.

　　歌德里·布路特先生很富有，一天，他和维尔森·科拉德打赌，假如他身无分文，能在贫民区生活30天，就可得到科拉德的财产，否则他的财产就要归科拉德所有。因此，布路特开始过着流浪汉般的生活，历经千辛万苦，他终于战胜了自我，成功做到了这一点。最后，尝尽生活酸甜苦辣的歌德里·布路特终于懂得生活的意义，于是他决定掏出一大笔钱用来帮助那些饥寒交迫的贫民……

　　上一世，九尾狐附身苏妲己坏事做尽。女娲娘娘念她助周伐商有功，抹除她的记忆，派她到凡间重新修炼，取名姜灵犀（夏灵溪 饰）。这一世，她兜兜转转遇到自己的心爱人松烨（许之糯 饰），但松烨心里却喜欢着温柔如水的白素贞（安晨芯 饰）。姜灵犀为爱幻化成白素贞的样子陪在松烨身边，却酿 成终身遗憾....

　　蔡琬真（张钧甯 饰）和男友沈浩介（何润东 饰）交往多年，彼此之间感情十分要好。身为编辑的蔡琬真工作很是繁忙，巨大的职场压力下，她不得不将几乎全部的时间都放在了办公室之中。对于女友的忙碌，沈浩介十分理解，并给与了极大的支持，成为了蔡琬真最坚实的后盾。
　　一只名叫拉里的小狗意外降临到了蔡琬真和沈浩介两人的生活之中，成为了家庭中的一份子，然而，真正能够陪伴拉里的却只有沈浩介，因为蔡琬真实在是太忙了。长此以往，蔡琬真和沈浩介之间的感情开始产生了裂痕，与此同时，拉里病了，它的生命时钟开始了倒计时，在此情况下，蔡琬真会做出怎样的选择呢？

　　西佳敬（北野武饰）是一名警察，几年前女儿不幸死去，现在妻子（岸本加世子饰）患白血病已到晚期。好意让他去探望妻子的搭档堀部（大杉涟饰），则在任务中严重受伤，导致下半身瘫痪，与轮椅为伴。后来西在一次逮捕行动中处理失当，又导致后辈田中（芦川诚饰）丧生。引咎辞职的他，想着供养田中的寡妻（大家由佑子饰），接近并安慰老友堀部，黑社会紧追着他索讨利息，这一切都令西感到不堪重负。他决定铤而走险，做件冒险的事情，将一切做个了结。最后，西陪妻子做一次没有归途的旅行。

　　影片讲述平时在城市里生活的高中女生理绪（葵若菜）到乡下过暑假，和当地帅气美男吟藏（佐野勇斗）之间的爱情故事

　　邓思佳（葛兰 饰）是夜总会里万人仰慕的野玫瑰，她虽然风情万种仪态万千，但她的心从来都不属于任何人。一次偶然之中，邓思佳认识了琴师梁汉华（张扬 饰），两人之间产生了小小的误会，矛盾消除之后，梁汉华所展现出的正直和勇敢令邓思佳对他起了兴趣。
　　小刘（田青 饰）告诉邓思佳，梁汉华早有未婚妻吴素心（苏凤 饰），但邓思佳不为所动，她和小刘打赌，会在十日之内得到梁汉华的爱。就在邓思佳和梁汉华终于真心相见后，邓思佳的前夫独眼龙（唐迪 饰）半路杀出，惹出了一连串的麻烦连累梁汉华被捕入狱。出狱后的梁汉华决定同邓思佳一起生活，他不允许邓思佳重拾旧业，自己亦找不到工作，生活渐渐陷入了拮据之中。

　　影片讲述了奥兹国两位女巫鲜为人知的成长故事。因绿色皮肤而备受误解的艾芙芭（辛西娅·埃里沃 Cynthia Erivo 饰）与光彩夺目、野心勃勃的格琳达（爱莉安娜·格兰德 Ariana Grande 饰）在西兹大学结识，性格迥异的二人却建立起了深厚的友谊。然而，随着与奥兹国大巫师的邂逅，她们的友谊走向十字路口，二人面临着截然不同的命运之路。这段奇幻冒险揭示了友谊、力量与自我发现的真谛。