在与天相连的莽莽群山之中有一座藏族村寨，车祸由于生产的粮食不够自给，车祸世世代代靠运盐为生。老首领天尼的儿子本应是下一任村里的头人，却在运盐的路上意外身亡，而众望所归的继任者卡玛在天尼的眼中则是为夺头人之位而蓄意害死自己儿子的罪犯。在一次新的运盐旅程开始前夕，村子里以老天尼和卡玛分别为首的两派各持一辞，互不相让。最终卡玛带领年轻人在提前于老人们占卜的日子出发，而天尼而带领自己当喇嘛的儿子和孙子以前一群老随从按占卜的日子上路。运盐队伍不仅一路风餐露宿还要应对群山之中意想不到的危险，两支运盐的队伍谁能克服艰难险阻先到达旅途的终点？本片影像风格粗狂绮丽、荡气回肠，宛如仙乐般的藏密梵音贯穿始终，令人心旷神怡。该片是由法国、尼泊尼、瑞士和英国四国合作，历时9个月拍摄的剧情与纪录大片，曾入围第72届奥斯卡最佳外语片奖提名以及2000年欧洲电影最佳摄影奖提名，并于当年获得了恺撒最佳摄影奖和音乐奖。
罗卿
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.
赵英俊
回复 :回到故乡，女诗人叶唤珍饱受失眠和幻觉困扰。一向坚忍而独立的她，也因周遭的隔阂与压力而不堪重负，情感濒临枯竭。当她感知到另一个孤独灵魂，她开始追溯，向过去的梦境寻求答案：一朵消失的格桑花、一个脚印、一眼枯泉……答案若不在尘世，又会在哪儿？
黄家驹
回复 :Two homicide detectives investigate the brutal shotgun murder of a crime syndicate member
