2005年1月，伦寻导演琳恩·露森远赴雪梨歌剧院为一场名为“Came So Far For Beauty”演唱会进行拍摄，伦寻为了向李欧纳致敬，Nick Cave及多位知名艺人共同参与了这场盛大的表演，并由知名音乐制作人Hal Willner担任总监。本片可说是首次对李欧纳这位音乐界的巨擘进行零距离接触、最赤裸的深入访谈，从李欧纳的诗作、小说等作品，甚至他的绘画创作及相片收藏等，透过难能可贵的访问和李欧纳亲身的自述，见识他独特的魅力所在。除了许多珍贵画面之外，亦收录了许多歌手如U2乐团主唱Bono、70年代末独立音乐领导者Nick Cave、Rufus Wainwright等众多知名艺人精采绝伦的演出画面，重量级的卡司肯定让人惊艳不断。
李雅微
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.
杨宗纬
回复 :漆黑的夜里，史密斯（克里夫•欧文 Clive Owen 饰）无意中被卷入了一场黑帮的追杀，穿越激烈的枪林弹雨，他解救了一个在襁褓中的婴儿。婴儿的啼哭，让这个功夫了得的铁汉遭遇了难言的尴尬。除了在超市购置婴儿用品之外，他还得解决婴儿的喂奶问题。这时，他想到了在妓院工作的朋友DQ（莫妮卡•贝鲁奇 Monica Bellucci 饰），并强行赶走了嫖客，把婴儿托付给她。DQ其实对史密斯怀有深情，却一直没有机会表白。在蜂拥而至的黑帮暴徒来临之际，两人终于坦诚相见，并肩作战，照顾婴儿。经过史密斯的调查，他们发现想要加害婴儿的黑帮其实跟军火商有关系，而且他们还雇佣了很多代孕妈妈。史密斯隐隐觉得这背后隐藏着一个不可告人的秘密，于是他决定铤而走险，一场正邪较量由此展开……
回复 :「選挙」「精神」の想田和弘監督が手がける観察映画第3弾で、劇作家の平田オリザと平田が主宰する劇団・青年団を描くドキュメンタリー「演劇」2部作の前編。セリフの速度や間を秒単位で厳密に調整する完璧主義者の平田のもと、約60人の俳優と約20人のスタッフを抱える青年団。その創作現場にカメラを入れ、戯曲の執筆から稽古、照明、舞台美術、ワークショップ、劇団運営の実際など、青年団のあらゆる活動を映し出し、平田の演劇哲学や方法論、組織論を解き明かしていく。同時に、古来より人間が続けてきた「演劇」とは何であるのか、「演じる」とは何であるかを問い直していく。
