健美班女教练阿芝（梅艳芳 饰）和隔壁的私人侦探阿佐（万梓良 饰）是一对欢喜冤家，拍拍两人一见面便口角不断，拍拍笑话连连。某天，四个劫匪抢劫了富商曹先生的名贵钻石，逃亡途中阴差阳错将钻石掉到了阿芝那里。一无所知的阿芝随后遭到劫匪们的追杀，最终被绑架而去。渐渐喜欢上阿芝的阿佐眼看心上之人身陷虎口，懊恼不已。幸亏其助手IQ博士送给阿芝的防狼器中藏有跟踪器，二人一路追踪到劫匪的藏匿窝点。却不知，阿芝几经周折已脱身而出。但穷凶极恶的劫匪怎肯罢休，誓要得到钻石为止，而他们的背后似乎又有个黑手暗中操控……
红雨晴
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.
李宣榕
回复 :这是一部最伟大的电影，这是有史以来最具艺术性的电影，这是“诗电影”的最高境界。我是古巴，我是哈瓦那，我是退潮后礁石上千万干涸的泡沫。我是古巴，我是甘蔗，我是那连同家园一起燃烧的大片甘蔗。我是古巴，我是姑娘，我爱上了卖水果的小伙子，他开朗又善良，他每天欢快的歌唱，可我是妓女。我是古巴，我是雪茄，我热爱生活，热爱每天亲吻我的人，我不停地燃烧。我是古巴，我是音乐，一点点丰收的喜悦就值得我纵情歌唱，可谁又能听见我的悲伤？我是古巴，我们的身边不是海洋... 是抑制不住的泪，它流了下来，变成了鲜血。我是古巴，我是革命！我是掠夺者打不死的墙！我是古巴，我是解放。。。。。。这是一部64年拍摄的影片，但是却是一部超前了好几代的电影，由于政治原因，以致于当弗朗西斯·福特 科波拉和马丁·西塞克斯在2002年看到这部上个世纪的电影时，禁不住高呼，这是一部近十年来最伟大的电影，这是一部永远改变了人们对电影看法的电影！视觉上最美丽的电影，壮观的令人晕倒的电影，眼花缭乱的让人窒息的电影，优美高雅却让人流泪的电影，从技术上说这可以是一部无人能够超过的电影，从艺术上说这是诗电影的最高境界，但更重要的是 这是一部革命的史诗 共产主义的战歌，他虽然是上个世纪的产物但在今天 他却让人们对世界有了更新更清楚地认识。让所有被压迫的人手挽手地走在一起吧！让他们高举起共产主义的旗帜。共同为这世界谋求幸福吧！ 那些产生巨大影响的思想往往是极其朴素的：如果那些剥削者聚集在一起 可以形成一股力量的话，那么被剥削者也应该这样做，道理就这样简单。
丽莎史坦菲尔德
回复 :在一个滂沱大雨的夜晚，辣手干探Chul-jung在监视行动中突然人有三急，却找不到「解决」的地方。当他躲在灯柱完成「解决」后，一个穿著雨衣的神秘男人与他擦身而过。Chul-jung认为此人形迹可疑，上前查问，突然间神秘男子手中的利刀一闪而过，Chul-jung眼角流血，神秘男人亦瞬即不见了踪影。一星期后，Chul-jung驻守的地区发生了一宗凶杀案。死者是一对年老的夫妇，警方发现他们是被捅多刀致死的，现场亦留下了行凶的凶器。可是，大家对这宗案件仍毫无头绪。Chul-jung仔细观察尸体，突然想起当晚曾在雨中被神秘男人击倒的事，并认得凶器和那个男人手持的刀一样。Chul-jung因此锁定了那个男人便是杀人凶手。经过连番调查，Chul-jung直觉认为投资公司顾问Kyu-hwan的嫌疑最大，可是却苦无证据。Chul-jung利用了自己的职权，不顾一切的派员跟踪Kyu-hwan，甚至不惜任何代价，都要令Kyu-hwan露出马脚，找到杀人的证据。然而，Kyu-hwan亦并非等闲之辈，他利用了自己的权势，令Chul-jung被降职，以求令Chul-jung停止对自己的滋扰。就在这时，另一宗谋杀案又发生了，手法跟第一宗亦一模一样……全片充满北野武式的暴力影像与黑色幽默，血液喷涌的枪伤、利刃狂插的杀人场景，在怵目惊心之余，也质疑所谓公理正义的真谛。
