在一个边远的北方小镇，亚洲区一条街，亚洲区一边住户，一边商家，组成了完整而破败的社区。12岁的男孩托马斯（Leonard Lucieer 饰）成天将自己打扮成黑人模样，宛如他所崇拜的刚果领袖Lumumba。男孩的妈妈玛莎（Annet Malherbe 饰）因听到圣音教诲而成为信女，并拒绝和丈夫行房。身为屠夫的爸爸雅可布（Jack Wouterse 饰）饱受性欲煎熬，只能在店里偷窥别的女人。邮差普莱格（Alex van Warmerdam 饰）是托马斯的唯一好友，他的爱好是偷拆他人信件。护林员整日荷枪实弹巡逻，三番五次向邮差找茬。某天，一个黑人的到来搅乱了小镇看似平静的生活……
黄学新
回复 :玛丽安（朱莉•黛比 饰）是来自法国的摄影师，她的男朋友杰克（亚当•戈登堡 饰）是美国的室内设计师，两人在纽约生活了两年，感情逐渐趋于平淡。为了找回失落的激情，两人放下一切去欧洲度假。在享受了完美的旅行，二人感情重新苏醒之后，玛丽安决定转到巴黎看望父母，顺便领回自己的小猫，对巴黎颇有幻想的杰克欣然同意。然而，种种匪夷所思的事情随之而来：玛丽安的父母作风大胆，话题百无禁忌；玛丽安的前男友们纷纷出现，一个比一个疯狂……短短两天，杰克对天堂巴黎的幻想破灭，他的美国基因无法接受这一切。最终，玛丽安和杰克不得不坐下来谈谈未来，这次谈话也许是一个艰难的开始，或者仅仅是一个无奈的结束。
吴国敬
回复 :"Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide"The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport both in their professional and daily lives between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps.The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial." -Steve Grayson"my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty." - Jonathan Rosenbaum
刘转亮
回复 :陷入宗教极端分子控制下的马里通布图终日遭受圣战分子的迫害“半壁江山都被入侵者占领了”。女性首当其冲。通过讲述 Kidane、Fatima、他们的女儿Toya和Issan，以及他们的小农庄的故事，Abderrahmane Sissako对“被媒体和全世界忽略的”这个地区的恐怖主义表示反对。这位导演用镜头见证了自己心中热爱的萨赫勒地区“男女平民寂静的反抗”，借此揭露现实。
