北国A portrait of the myth of maternity around the story of Pepa and her daughter, who are asked out of their home and forced to wander for a place to live with no support network.
北国A portrait of the myth of maternity around the story of Pepa and her daughter, who are asked out of their home and forced to wander for a place to live with no support network.
回复 :Siddartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee) is forced to discontinue his medical studies due to unexpected and brutal death of his father. He has to now find a job in stead. In one job interview, he is asked to name the most significant world event in the last ten years. His reply is 'the plain human courage shown by the people of Vietnam', instead of the expected - man landing on moon. The interviewer asks is he is a communist. Needles to say that he does not get the job.He reaches a coffee shop where he is offered to work for the communist party. When he does not show any interest the party leader tells him about an opening for a medical representative. To escape from the heat and have a snooze, he goes in to a cinema. As a government propaganda newsreel is being shown before the feature, a bomb explodes in the cinema hall. In the stampede that follows, Siddartha, breaks his watch. He goes to a watchmaker but he cannot afford the repairs.Waiting to cross the road, he notices a sexy girl. He drifts back to his days as a medical student in a flashback. The professor is explaining anatomy of female breast. Many flashbacks and dreams occur to Siddartha through the film.On his way to hostel, he has an encounter with some hippies. Along with an ex-classmate, he goes out to see a porn film but to their disappointment, the film turns out to be not-so-pornographic.In such constant wandering in a Calcutta, disintegrated relationships with his sister and a Naxalite (militant communist) brother, his friendship with Keya is only thing that keeps him sane.Keya is a simple girl. They enjoy each other's company but they cannot make any commitment to each other due to the circumstances.After yet another attempt at a job interview, Siddartha leaves the big city to take a modest job of a salesman in a far off small town. He writes to Keya that he still cherishes their relationship. And that he has heard that bird call again but this time it is for real, and not his mind. After completing the letter, he comes out to the balcony of his modest room. The bird calls again. He also hears the sombre chants of a funeral procession. As he turns to the camera, the picture is frozen.This is the first film of the Calcutta Trilogy. The other two were and Seemabaddha (Company Limited, 1971) and Jana Aranya (The Middle Man, 1975). All the three films study the effect the big city of Calcutta has on the educated youth and the price it extracts from them.The seventies were a difficult period for India and West Bengal. The Corruption was rampant; the Naxalite movement had created havoc in Calcutta. In fact, they had turned parts of Calcutta into 'liberated zones'. By the time the Naxalite movement died down, in 1975, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (then, Prime Minister of India) suppressed the fundamental rights and declared "Emergency" for her own political survival. Her son, Sanjay Gandhi became a dictator of sorts without any official designation. The opposition leaders were thrown into prisons.About his social responsibilities as a filmmaker, in an interview with Cineaste magazine, Ray commented, "You can see my attitude in The Adversary where you have two brothers. The younger brother is a Naxalite. There is no doubt that the elder brother admires the younger brother for his bravery and convictions. The film is not ambiguous about that. As a filmmaker, however, I was more interested in the elder brother because he is the vacillating character. As a psychological entity, as a human being with doubts, he is a more interesting character to me. The younger brother has already identified himself with a cause. That makes him part of a total attitude and makes him unimportant. The Naxalite movement takes over. He, as a person, becomes insignificant."In a letter to Seton in 1970, Ray wrote that Pratidwandi was the most provocative film he had made till then. The film is said to have evoked extreme reactions. "People either loved the film or hated it", Dhritiman Chatterjee told Andrew Robinson, Ray's biographer.
回复 :青年建筑师陆涛(李晨 饰)执着的要靠个人努力实现理想,他离开了昔日的富二代女友,也拒绝向曾经离弃自己的有钱父亲请托,与女友夏琳(董璇 饰)共同打拼。陆涛、夏琳与向南(郑恺 饰)、晓芸(李媛 饰)夫妻俩为朋友吴旭举办“分手仪式”,不想却连累向南丢了工作,失业的向南开始投身网店,依靠晓芸工作养家。另一方面,陆涛为了替夏琳出头导致两人双双失业,夏琳奔赴法国学习时尚的梦想再度搁浅,而陆涛更加干劲十足要凭借自己实力拿回青年设计师奖项。这几个年青人在现实和梦想中奋斗起浮,经历着各自的情感危机。陆涛处处碰壁,不得已向生父求助……
回复 :皮埃尔(保罗·弗兰克尔Paul Frankeur 饰)和吉恩(劳伦特·特兹弗 Laurent Terzieff 饰)是两个从巴黎出发,沿圣雅各伯之路步行前往西班牙圣地亚哥-德孔波斯特拉古城的朝圣者。刚一出发,他们就遇到了一个披黑斗篷的奇怪男人(阿兰·克尼 Alain Cuny 饰),预言二人将会与一妓女有染,并诞下子嗣。一路上,皮埃尔和吉恩穿越不同时空,遇到了形形色色的天主教异教徒,目睹了普里西利安(让-克劳德·卡里尔Jean-Claude Carrière 饰)的神秘林中仪式,及耶稣会成员与詹森派成员的决斗。到达西班牙后,二人同意为路遇的两名年轻人看守驴子与货物。这二人因公然挑战三位一体的教条而被追捕,其中一人当晚却亲见圣母马利亚(爱迪丝·斯考博 Edith Scob 饰)显灵。本片灵感来自《西班牙异教史》一书,获1969年柏林电影节国际联盟奖(Interfilm Award)。