1946年一个雨夜，视频小说家莫里斯·本德里克斯（拉尔夫·费恩斯Ralph Fiennes 饰）邂逅身为外交官的故友亨利·梅尔斯（斯蒂芬·瑞 Stephen Rea 饰）。从亨利口中，视频莫里斯得知对方的妻子莎拉（朱丽安·摩尔 Julianne Moore 饰）似乎正有一段外遇 ，这令他妒火中烧。原来，两年前莫里斯曾和莎拉暗通款曲，两人经常背着亨利共享鱼水之欢。但在一次大轰炸过后，莎拉却从床底上绝然离去。始终耿耿于怀的莫里斯接受了亨利的请求，帮助好友调查莎拉的行踪，然而结果却令他唏嘘不已，感慨良多……本片根据格雷厄姆·格林（Graham Greene）1951年的神秘浪漫主义的自传体小说改编，并荣获2000年英国电影和电视艺术学院奖最佳剧本奖。
回复 :贝奇，安吉和辛迪是在同一间公司里工作的同事，私底下三个姑娘亦是感情十分要好的好友。一次偶然中，三人在公司里捡到了一大袋钱，鬼迷心窍的她们将钱拿走藏在了贝奇的家中。虽然脑袋里有一万个想要用这笔钱来买的东西，但三人并不敢在毫不知情的情况下轻易的动用这笔钱。原来，这笔巨款的主人是公司的总经理康大维，他贪污受贿假公济私的举动不慎曝光，知情者于是向其勒索了一笔巨款，哪知道却被贝奇等人半路拿走。勒索者眼看着没有拿到钱，于是将康大维的所作所为举报给了警方，康大维随即接受了调查。得知这一事实，三个姑娘的心简直提到了嗓子眼，那一带钱也仿佛不是钱了，而是一颗随时都会爆炸的定时炸弹。
回复 :The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich; his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.
回复 :杰瑞米·艾恩斯、杰克·休斯顿出演公路片《演员的自我修养》(An Actor Prepares，暂译)。杰瑞米·艾恩斯饰演的父亲是一名自视甚高的演员，杰克·休斯顿则饰性格迥异的儿子。因要从洛杉矶赶往纽约参加女儿的婚礼，身体不适的父亲不得不在儿子的陪伴下开始了一段“特殊旅行”。
