故事讲述8岁的珍妮经常被她的律师妈妈麦琪和艺术家爸爸杰夫之间的不和所困扰。她过着虽然孤独但却很富有想象力的生活，无地身边还有一群以她父亲的作品为原型、无地被称为“恐怖亲戚”的木偶。麦琪在一起肇事逃逸事件中不幸身亡，杰夫和珍妮试图开始新的生活。但当麦琪的父亲起诉要求抚养权，保姆萨曼莎试图成为这个家的新女主人时，他们在布鲁克林的乡村小屋生活发生了一个黑暗的转折。可怕的木偶竟然都活过来了，珍妮是唯一能看到他们的人。当这些恐怖生物的动机变得清晰时，每个人的生命都处于非常危险的境地......
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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.
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回复 :年轻貌美的单身母亲李美华，用尽自己的积蓄开了一家婚纱店，不幸的是开业的前一天婚纱店发生火灾，李美华雇佣的两名店员葬身火海，从此，李美华踏上让两个失去亲人的家庭宽恕自己的人生路。影片取材于台湾著名演员高金素梅(曾出演李安的成名作《喜宴》)的真实经历。编剧经过艺术加工，将故事背景移植到大陆，主题立意强调一个人应有的良知与责任。
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回复 :都柏林市好客的三姐妹，每年都在家举办新年宴会，亲朋好友籍此机相聚畅谈，均感快慰。宴会散席之后女主角在楼梯间听到男高音清唱的一首爱尔兰古老的情歌，忆及年轻时她的情人爱唱的同一首歌。在回到旅馆之后，坦然向丈夫道出情人为她殉情而死的往事，令丈夫惊觉到：原来他对太太的了解是那么少！而人的心灵又是如此幽黯深远！
