郑晟
发表于7分钟前回复 :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.
天上智喜
发表于2分钟前回复 :冰島西南海岸雷恰角半島的格林達維克,是個以漁業為生的港口小鎮,人煙稀少、冰天雪地。鎮上有間樸實但獨一無二的「碼頭咖啡」,每天清早,店主人烹調著招牌龍蝦湯,以油滑香熱、噴鮮濃郁的熱湯和熱咖啡,迎接每一個在港邊海風呼嘯的日子。退休的老漁夫,固定在此與老友喝咖啡、聊是非;不時舉辦的音樂演奏會、追思會,傳唱著小鎮故事並凝聚社群記憶。牆上掛的航海照片與「捕魚英雄榜」,記錄了這座小鎮與人們昔日的輝煌。彷彿佇立在世界盡頭的咖啡館,為這當地人自述「除了捕魚,什麼都沒有」的地方,注入了不可或缺的人情與活力。本片真實呈現一間在碼頭邊屹立不搖的暖心咖啡館,近半世紀迎接大小漁船來來去去,見證小鎮漁業盛衰、觀光熱潮興起,以及周遭地貌變化。在天寒地凍之中,更見一個空間經年累月形塑起的社群連結與情感羈絆,物換星移,依然暖心且暖胃。