本片描述1933年德国的纳粹势力崛起时，亚洲区在一艘由墨西哥驶往柏林的大客轮上发生了诸多荒谬可笑的事，亚洲区反映出在特殊的时代氛围下大千世界的人生缩影。船员都是德国人，其中还包括船上的医生，他爱上了其中的一名女乘客。此外还有一个年轻的美国女孩，是和她爱着的男人一起旅行。对于其他乘客来说，神秘的珍妮令人琢磨不透，但是有一个著名的人物却引起了她的注意。一九三三年德国纳粹崛起时，有一艘客轮自南美载客至柏林，本片就是描述船上各式各样的乘客在航行途中的生活片段。这是一部在大时代背景下的小缩影，剧本结构严密，对白精彩有力，而导演斯坦利．克雷默的执导手法沉稳而细腻，同时表现出时代洪流的冲突与乱世人生的无奈。演员费雯．丽、奥斯卡．沃纳、李．马文、乔治．席格等都演得十分成功，使这部群戏教人印象难忘。此片是费雯．丽的最后一部作品，她时年五十二岁。本片曾获最佳黑白片摄影、最佳黑白片艺术指导两项金像奖。
陈慧琳
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.
森山良子
回复 :阿巴贡（路易·德·菲耐斯 Louis de Funès 饰）是个人尽皆知的吝啬鬼，早年丧妻的他带着女儿艾莉丝（Claire Dupray 饰）和儿子克莱昂特（皮埃尔·奥赛达特 Pierre Aussedat 饰）过着平静的生活。靠放高利贷为生的阿巴贡将辛苦赚来的金币埋在了花园里，他将自家花园的地下视为最保险和最安全的所在。阿巴贡一直在追求一个名叫玛丽安娜（Madeleine Barbulée 饰）的年轻姑娘，没想到玛丽安娜却和克莱昂特两情相悦，两人在花园里幽会的时候被阿巴贡逮了个正着，这让阿巴贡十分气恼。祸不单行，阿巴贡埋在地下的金币失窃了，克莱昂特向父亲承诺他将查出盗窃金币的罪魁祸首，但作为报酬，他必须祝福他与玛丽安娜的爱情。
林宝
回复 :故事发生在1944年的德国，伊丽莎白（琳达·汉密尔顿 Linda Hamilton 饰）带着儿子福瑞斯（Matthew Harbour 饰）藏身于森林木屋之中，以躲避战火带来的伤害。某日，三名受伤的美国士兵敲响了伊丽莎白家的房门，他们需要一个地方修养疗伤，无奈之下，伊丽莎白只得让他们进屋，但前提条件是他们的武器必须留在屋外。没过多久，又来了三名不速之客，他们是德国士兵，在小小的木屋之中，互为敌对的两方人马狭路相逢，艰难维系着表面的平和。圣诞节来临了，众人围坐在餐桌前，共同庆祝这个上帝赐予他们的节日，杯筹交错之间，大家放松了下来，暂且忘记了各自的国籍和立场，气氛开始缓和起来。
