由澳門的一宗命案開始，国偷名妓張美玲(張艾嘉)被發現在酒店房中刺殺了前度男友中村(鶴見辰吾)。在審判的過程中，国偷發現了中村與美玲十年前的一段不可告人的往事，更發現美玲與夜總會經理白蘭(姚煒)之間曖昧的關係，而白蘭中村亦為了美玲而造成終身遺憾的錯誤。《海上花》是楊凡導演的影片中戲劇原素最豐富的一部，其中有刻骨銘心的異性戀，有曖昧纏綿的女同性戀，有販毒與吸毒者的矛盾，有妓女與鴇母之間的衝突。女主角張艾嘉在本片中的表現被譽為當年最優雅的演出，日籍男主角鶴見辰吾以極其浪漫的姿態風靡不少女性觀眾，而姚煒則成為中國電影史上女同性戀的經典人物。主題曲：《海上花》則囊括幾乎當年所有港臺音樂大獎，並成為詞曲羅大佑、主唱甄妮音樂事業上的新里程。
郑海龙
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.
陈亚兰
回复 :根据著名乡村女歌星洛莉塔·琳Loretta Lynn的自传改编而成的歌唱文艺片，也是茜茜·斯派塞克 Sissy Spacek荣获金像奖影后的代表作。穷困的矿工女儿洛莉塔·琳（茜茜·斯派塞克 Sissy Spacek 饰），在婚后才展开她的歌唱事业，然而凭借她那充满感情的歌声，终于成为乡村歌后。并非每一位音乐家都是古典音乐家。古典音乐家固然受人尊敬，但其他类型的音乐也需要才华横溢、个性强烈的演绎者。美国乡村音乐女歌星洛瑞塔·琳也许并不广为人知，但根据她的自传拍摄的这部影片却备受推崇。洛瑞塔的扮演者茜茜·斯派西克不仅亲自演唱片中的歌曲，而且在拍摄时实况演唱并录制，她的表演得到洛瑞塔本人的认可，并获奥斯卡最佳女主角奖。
织田纯一郎
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