艾莉克西亚（阿加莎·罗塞勒 Agathe Rousselle 饰）是一名汽车模特，国产拥有曼妙身材的她靠着跳艳舞维持生计。早年间，国产一场车祸让艾莉克西亚的大脑中被医生植入了钛金属，这块金属随着时间的推移，渐渐影响了她的性格，让她变得暴戾而又狂躁，在钛金属的影响下，她甚至杀死了自己的双亲。不仅如此，艾莉克西亚还发现自己对汽车产生了性趣，在和汽车发生了性关系后，艾莉克西亚发现自己的身体逐渐出现了妊娠的征兆。文森特（文森特·林顿 Vincent Lindon 饰）是消防队的队长，早年间，他的儿子失踪了，这些年来，他一直都没有放弃过寻找儿子的下落。命运让艾莉克西亚和文森特相遇了，艾莉克西亚女扮男装，假装成为文森特的儿子，和文森特开始了住在同一屋檐下的生活。她一边要努力维系自己的谎言不被戳穿，一遍还要隐藏渐渐变形的身体。当然，纸是包不住火的，在长久的压抑之后，艾莉克西亚和文森特之间的关系也发生了微妙的变化。
张楚
回复 :夜半三更，三五好友齐聚聊鬼。三段骇人听闻的都市轶闻相互交织，如果你胆子够大，敢不敢挑战招牌甘蔗女郎海报背后，竟是人气女星多舛的可怕命运？还是过气马戏团魔术师，因为替孩子变魔术后，开始遇见各种离奇现象？或是能够通灵的女子，受托去寻找亡者的遗体，却因此被鬼魂纠缠，并发现自己从来没想到过的震惊真相？夜已渐深，你…是否还敢继续听下去…？
鲁昕儿
回复 :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.
艾利斯的锁链乐队
回复 :比利·怀德导演的第一部电影
