AEIOU：爱之字母表

　　婚姻究竟是否恋爱的坟墓呢？有人觉得一纸婚书等于一张长期饭票，亦有人觉得是一条末路。因此当不信婚姻的大卫（谢利奥康奴）被亲密同居女友（碧姬韦逊）提出结婚的计划时，他要面对他一生中最大的决择，他究竟最后选择去接受还是去逃避呢？

　　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.

　　A struggling writer meets death and falls in love. He must decide if his true love is in this world or the next, and if his dreams of success are worth dying for.

　　米尼（李心洁 饰）是杂技团的空中飞人，母亲远嫁海外，长期被寄养在舅母家，生活孤独。某天，她和在音像店工作的周大康（刘烨 饰）相爱，后者是普通是城市下层青年，喜欢偷东西，仔细研究以后再寄还失主，以此窥视别人的生活，洞悉世界。
　　但是，爱情的浪漫并不能掩盖现实的残酷。阿康因为偷东西入狱，米尼关节受伤离被迫开杂技团，出狱后的阿康选择另外的人生道路，米尼为了复出挣钱把自己出卖给杂技团的赞助商大成哥（张耀扬 饰）……生活的难题一个接着一个，他们彼此深爱，彼此伤害，一步一步从浪漫温暖的开头走到了鲜血淋漓的结局。

　　巍巍大唐，如日中天。白衣会上，杨家有女初长成，绰约风姿抓住了帝王李隆基（黎明 饰）的视线，也由此注定了她一生的不平凡。为了防止杨玉环（范冰冰 饰）对自己后宫地位构成威胁，武惠妃（陈冲 饰）巧舌如簧，将玉环变成了她儿子寿王李瑁（吴尊 饰）的王妃。武惠妃雍容华贵，风韵犹存，可怕的是其骨子里流淌着如姑母武则天般对权力极度渴望的血液。为了让寿王践祚，她不惜设毒计构陷太子，致使东宫喋血，父子相杀。
　　开元盛世走到顶点，王朝的荣光逐渐开始褪色。玄宗无法遏制对杨玉环的痴恋，他执拗地坠入了温柔乡，和这个他所珍爱的女子共同从繁华走向了黑暗身处……

　　故事开始于1949年的波兰，第二次世界大战刚刚结束，资本主义和社会主义的对立抵达了白热化的状态。维克多（托马斯·科特 Tomasz Kot 饰）是一名音乐家，他正在筹建一个青少年民族音乐演出团，靠演出传统波兰歌舞来输出国家的文化，制作人伊雷娜（阿伽塔·库雷斯扎 Agata Kulesza 饰）和监督官员卡奇马雷克（波利斯·席克 Borys Szyc 饰）也参与进了这一计划中。
　　一个名为祖拉（乔安娜·库里格 Joanna Kulig 饰）的女孩吸引了维克多的注意，虽然卡奇马雷克并不认为这个身世复杂的女孩是参加演出团的合适人选，但维克多还是义无反顾的认定了她。随着时间的推移，两个人坠入了情网之中。

　　美女安蒂(凯特•哈德森饰)是一家时尚杂志的专栏作家，负责撰写“恋爱指南”之类的情感文章。某天，主编给她派了一个棘手的任务：搜集怎样甩掉男人的第一手资料。因此，安蒂必须在十天之内找到一个男朋友，然后再甩掉他。
　　安蒂看上了在广告代理公司工作的本杰明(马修•麦康纳饰)，磨刀霍霍，准备实施她的计划；谁知道，本杰明是一个典型的花花公子，游戏人间的他正在和老板打赌：十天之内让一个女人彻底爱上他。
　　干柴烈火，一拍即合，他们开始了真真假假的爱情游戏。

　　"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.

　　克里斯（罗宾·威廉姆斯 Robin Williams 饰）与安妮（安娜贝拉·莎拉 Annabella Sciorra 饰）深爱着彼此，这对让人艳羡的夫妻有个美满的家庭，聪明可爱的孩子们，坚贞不移的爱情。可是一切都在孩子们意外死亡后打碎了。
　　自从孩子们逝世后，克里斯与安妮每天都活在痛苦之中，他们心里惦记的始终是死去的孩子，他们的生活彻底失去了快乐的根源，都变得郁郁寡欢，但两人依然互相依靠着生活。可是，厄运并没有就此停止。安妮最心爱的克里斯也在意外当中逝世，死后的克里斯在天堂上看到了自己的孩子，仿佛生活又回到了当初快乐的样子，但他的心里仍记挂着尚在人间的妻子。
　　丈夫的逝世，使安妮心痛不已，生活变得更加难熬了。终于，她还是无法忍受独自生活的寂寥，自杀了。生前的她经常凭想象画出天堂的样子。可是由于自杀，她只能堕入地狱。克里斯誓要留在妻子身边，不让她继续受折磨。于是，他到地狱去了……

　　首部电影以校园故事为主：莉萨（Lissa）是吸血鬼家族的纯血公主，她拥有极罕见且强大的魔法。她就读于名为圣弗拉米尔的吸血鬼学院，在这里她要时时提防莫里（Moroi）家族的袭击。当然莉萨公主并非孤身一人，她有好朋友萝斯·海瑟薇（Rose Hathaway）和监护人迪米特里（Dimitri）助阵，后者还和她发生了一段浪漫的爱情故事。

　　一把冷冷的男声带来了故事的开始。青春期对里斯本一家的5个豆蔻女儿们来说，是一道迈不过的槛。首先自杀的是最小的女儿赛西利娅（汉娜霍尔 Hanna R. Hall 饰）。她变得脆弱低落，想结束生命，这一切都没有道得明的原因。父母以为，让她去和男孩交往，会改善情况。然而，赛西利娅还是选择了告别人生。
　　和男孩交往频繁，性情放纵的，是另一个女儿勒克斯(克尔斯滕·邓斯特 Kirsten Dunst 饰)。勒克斯认识花花公子特里普，被和他发生了关系，却最终被特里普抛弃。里斯本父母害怕再次失去女儿，于是失去了理性。他们把四个女儿困在家中，给她们最严密的保护。然而自杀的惨剧就像疫情一样，迅速的扩散。

　　职业杀手高守（刘德华 饰）手段高强，深得女老板ICE（伍咏薇 饰）赏识，不意却激起另一杀手王昌（郑浩南 饰）的妒恨。某日，高守偶遇初出茅庐执行任务的女杀手如枫（袁咏仪 饰），并在对方的胁迫下带其逃离现场，而这一场相遇，在两人心中留下了不灭的痕迹。
　　警官董辉（李子雄 饰）保护的污点证人在开庭时被高守乔装的法官当众击杀，董辉至此开始对高守锲而不舍的追索。与此同时，高守与如枫的再次相遇点燃了两人的爱火，而如枫对高守的真实身份却一无所知。不久高守在一次任务中意外失手，ICE按照杀手组织规则指派如枫刺杀失败者，而已经对警方大开杀戒的王昌和步步紧逼的董辉亦先后将矛头对准了高守……