山下达郎
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: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.
辛子奇
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:关于“五角大楼文件”泄密案(Pentagon Papers)的新片《The Post》,将史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格、汤姆·汉克斯与梅丽尔·斯特里普聚到了一起。斯皮尔伯格将作为导演与制片人身份参与制作,而影片的男女主角分别是汉克斯与梅姨。这部吸引好莱坞三巨头首次合作的电影将在银幕上重现著名的“五角大楼文件”泄密案。1971年,一名国防部官员将美国政府卷入越南战争的机密文件通过《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》等媒体曝光,而在文件公开之前,美国国防部曾试图阻挠文件的曝光并以失败告终。“五角大楼文件”事件标志着尼克松领导的联邦政府名誉扫地的开始,随后爆发的水门事件直接导致尼克松政府倒台。《The Post》的主人公为“五角大楼文件”事件中发挥关键作用的《华盛顿邮报》的编辑本·布拉德利与出版人凯·格拉汉姆。汉克斯将饰演布拉德利,这个角色曾在讲述水门事件的经典影片《总统班底》中出现过,而格拉汉姆则由梅姨出演。斯皮尔伯格的安培林娱乐与20世纪福斯将共同负责融资制作。影片是斯皮尔伯格与汉克斯的第五次银幕合作,斯导现在正忙于《玩家一号》的后期制作,《The Post》何时开始制作还是未知数。