故事发生在十九世纪的英国，黄飞鸿皮普（杰瑞米·艾文 Jeremy Irvine 饰）从小成长于贫苦家庭之中，黄飞鸿看着他长大的是个性暴躁的姐姐和杰夫乔（杰森·弗莱明 Jason Flemyng 饰）。一次偶然中，皮普来到了一幢神秘的庄园之中，在那里住着的是他的雇主哈文森姆小姐（海伦娜·伯翰·卡特 Helena Bonham Carter 饰）和她的侄女艾斯黛拉（霍利·格林格 Holly Grainger 饰）。随着时间的推移，皮普深深的爱上了性格冷艳高贵的艾斯黛拉，深知自己配不上她的皮普在内心里燃起了想要跻身于上流社会的念头。一笔突然到来的神秘财产让皮普得以实现了他长久以来的愿望，他来到了伦敦，开始了自己的“变身计划”，而此时的他并不知道，本以为是时来运转，但自己不过只是棋盘上的一颗棋子而已。
郑智灿
回复 :前苏联时期，莫斯科某统计局女局长洛德尼拉·伯洛哥菲耶夫娜·卡卢金娜（Alisa Freyndlikh 饰）业务能力极强，事业为上，而形成鲜明对比的则是她的私人生活，爱情之花迟迟没有绽放。对于这个表情肃穆古板的上司，职员们背地里叫他“冷血动物”。相貌老成的统计员安里多勒· 耶里姆多维奇·诺瓦谢利采夫（Andrey Myagkov 饰）于青年时代便才华横溢，虽然独自辛勤抚养两个孩子，却为人乐观，颇受同事喜爱。对于“冷血动物”，诺瓦谢利采夫自命清高，不愿自贬身价求助卡卢金娜。而在卡卢金娜眼里，诺瓦谢利采夫唯唯诺诺，能力平庸，毫无闪光之处。适逢轻工业处处长职务从缺，诺瓦谢利采夫有心补位，却不得不面对这个难缠的“顶头天敌”。正所谓不是冤家不聚头，这样性格有着天壤之别的两人，奇妙的爱情竟在彼此心间萌生……
李东允
回复 :1960年代，纽约意大利人集结的布朗克斯区。黑帮老大辛尼（查兹·帕尔明特瑞 Chazz Palminteri饰）是当地赫赫有名的帮会人物。在一宗凶杀案现场，九岁的男孩安奴（弗朗西斯·卡普拉 Francis Capra饰）目睹了这一切。为了街区的名誉，安奴拒绝供出凶手就是辛尼，此事促使他俩展开一段俨如父子般的忘年友情。然而安奴的父亲罗兰逊（罗伯特·德尼罗 Robert De Niro饰）对此却并不赞成，唯恐儿子误入歧途。八年后，十七岁的安奴（李洛·布兰卡托 Lillo Brancato饰）已经成长为一名英俊少年。辛尼的势力正在逐渐扩大，安奴对辛尼愈发崇拜，对黑帮生活也更加向往。诚实正直的罗兰逊对儿子的忧虑越来越重。由奥斯卡影帝罗伯特·德尼罗执导的电影处女作《布朗克斯的故事》，入围1993年第50届威尼斯国际电影节金狮奖。
黄一飞
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.
