查韦斯（哈利·戴恩·斯坦通 Harry Dean Stanton 饰）迷失在德州荒无人烟的沙漠中，啥外因为身体虚弱而昏迷。医院联系了他的弟弟沃特（迪恩·斯托克维尔 Dean Stockwell 饰）来接他。出院的查韦斯一直沉默，啥外直到看见“巴黎，德州”的牌子，才终于开口。回 到洛杉矶弟弟家，查韦斯见到了儿子——亨特（亨特·卡森 Hunter Carson 饰演），弟弟弟妹其实是养父养母。但是亨特对突如其来的父亲并不接受。后来，查韦斯用很特别的方式收复了孩子的心。通过交流，查韦斯了解到孩子的生母——简（娜塔莎·金斯基 Nastassja Kinski 饰）的下落。于是，父子踏上了一条寻母之路……本片获第37届戛纳电影节最佳影片金棕榈大奖。
陈慧娴
回复 :本片依照季节交叉着串讲了三段凄美爱情故事。《燃烧的红叶》一篇，佐和子（菅野美穗）被男友松元（西岛秀俊）背叛，承受不住打击服药自杀，不遂变为呆子，松元在结婚当日得悉后，心生愧疚逃婚，开始用一根红绳将他与佐和子系在一起浪迹天涯。《夏日的碧海》一篇，人气偶像歌手春日奈（深田恭子）于一次交通事故中毁容，痴心歌迷为了陪伴她，不惜自毁双目。《静寂的雪山》一篇，年老患病的黑帮大佬自知时日无多，心血来潮到故地重游，发现任由沧海变桑田，旧情人仍像几十年前一样每逢周六就带好盒饭在相约的时间和地点守候他。
侯尼勋
回复 :十八岁的“红星社二代”乐队主唱沈绮（付梦妮 饰），在一起事故中，与刚从香港归来的风度翩翩中年男子方家成（张智霖 饰）一眼投缘。方家成为了在母亲面前隐瞒在香港失业无奈回到上海的秘密，瞬念之间“绑架”了沈绮当自己女友。情窦初开不识风情的沈绮，就此一发不可收拾，酒吧买醉，江边狂呼，现场邀唱，死乞白赖，萝莉不善爱情，只能真情呼唤。方家成似乎有所回应，却又犹豫不决，毕竟一段二十年前的回忆不断困扰，无法释怀，情何以堪。就在沈绮死了念想决然去澳洲念书的时候，一个从黄浦江里捞上来的旧箱子，揭开了一段非凡时空的秘密……
李正峰
回复 :Siddartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee) is forced to discontinue his medical studies due to unexpected and brutal death of his father. He has to now find a job in stead. In one job interview, he is asked to name the most significant world event in the last ten years. His reply is 'the plain human courage shown by the people of Vietnam', instead of the expected - man landing on moon. The interviewer asks is he is a communist. Needles to say that he does not get the job.He reaches a coffee shop where he is offered to work for the communist party. When he does not show any interest the party leader tells him about an opening for a medical representative. To escape from the heat and have a snooze, he goes in to a cinema. As a government propaganda newsreel is being shown before the feature, a bomb explodes in the cinema hall. In the stampede that follows, Siddartha, breaks his watch. He goes to a watchmaker but he cannot afford the repairs.Waiting to cross the road, he notices a sexy girl. He drifts back to his days as a medical student in a flashback. The professor is explaining anatomy of female breast. Many flashbacks and dreams occur to Siddartha through the film.On his way to hostel, he has an encounter with some hippies. Along with an ex-classmate, he goes out to see a porn film but to their disappointment, the film turns out to be not-so-pornographic.In such constant wandering in a Calcutta, disintegrated relationships with his sister and a Naxalite (militant communist) brother, his friendship with Keya is only thing that keeps him sane.Keya is a simple girl. They enjoy each other's company but they cannot make any commitment to each other due to the circumstances.After yet another attempt at a job interview, Siddartha leaves the big city to take a modest job of a salesman in a far off small town. He writes to Keya that he still cherishes their relationship. And that he has heard that bird call again but this time it is for real, and not his mind. After completing the letter, he comes out to the balcony of his modest room. The bird calls again. He also hears the sombre chants of a funeral procession. As he turns to the camera, the picture is frozen.This is the first film of the Calcutta Trilogy. The other two were and Seemabaddha (Company Limited, 1971) and Jana Aranya (The Middle Man, 1975). All the three films study the effect the big city of Calcutta has on the educated youth and the price it extracts from them.The seventies were a difficult period for India and West Bengal. The Corruption was rampant; the Naxalite movement had created havoc in Calcutta. In fact, they had turned parts of Calcutta into 'liberated zones'. By the time the Naxalite movement died down, in 1975, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (then, Prime Minister of India) suppressed the fundamental rights and declared "Emergency" for her own political survival. Her son, Sanjay Gandhi became a dictator of sorts without any official designation. The opposition leaders were thrown into prisons.About his social responsibilities as a filmmaker, in an interview with Cineaste magazine, Ray commented, "You can see my attitude in The Adversary where you have two brothers. The younger brother is a Naxalite. There is no doubt that the elder brother admires the younger brother for his bravery and convictions. The film is not ambiguous about that. As a filmmaker, however, I was more interested in the elder brother because he is the vacillating character. As a psychological entity, as a human being with doubts, he is a more interesting character to me. The younger brother has already identified himself with a cause. That makes him part of a total attitude and makes him unimportant. The Naxalite movement takes over. He, as a person, becomes insignificant."In a letter to Seton in 1970, Ray wrote that Pratidwandi was the most provocative film he had made till then. The film is said to have evoked extreme reactions. "People either loved the film or hated it", Dhritiman Chatterjee told Andrew Robinson, Ray's biographer.
