根据英国文豪狄更斯着名的小说《圣诞颂歌》改编，歌第加上了现代的电视台背景和热闹非凡的特技镜头，歌第变成一部具有警世效果的贺节喜剧。比尔．默里在片中饰演个性凉薄的电视台大亨弗兰克，一切唯利是图，为了提高节目收视率，就是哧死观众也在所不惜。就在耶诞节前夕，已经死了七年的老板拖着腐朽的身躯回来警告弗兰克，并预告他将有三名不速之客来访，包括带他巡访旧时生活和未来际遇的计程司机，带领他分亨亲情与爱情的小仙女，在电视现场扮演鬼魂的吓人妖怪。在这三个鬼魂的引导下，弗兰克终于明白了圣诞节的真谛。导演理查德．唐纳的手法虽有点夸张，但精彩的特技和男主角的喜感演出仍然吸引观众。
张韶涵
回复 :"Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide"The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport both in their professional and daily lives between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps.The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial." -Steve Grayson"my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty." - Jonathan Rosenbaum
张可颐
回复 :关于年轻人犯下谋杀罪的三个故事。在法国的故事里，一群高中生为了钱杀害了一个校友。在意大利的故事里，一位大学生牵涉进一桩香烟走私案。在英国的故事里，一个慵懒的诗人在丘陵地上发现一具女尸，然后试图把这件事卖给新闻报社。
金贤成
回复 :An adventure of the soul. JOSEPH is a young, painfully shy writer in the waterlands of South Carolina. After robbing a rural juke joint with two lower-class buddies and joy-riding up the coast to Myrtle Beach, his journey becomes a quest for strength and courage.
