It is a great film by a great director.Kira Muratova has never been given her due in the Soviet and post-Soviet Russia.In the Long Good Bye she depicts a seemingly banal story of a jealous and possessive mother (brilliantly acted by Zinaida Sharko) and her poor aloof and lonely son (the only cinematic role by the talented O. Vladimirsky). The story - which is nothing extraordinary in itself - grows into the wonderful and frightening analysis of alienation between genders and generations on the background of the even more frighteningly bleak and dehumanized Soviet reality.Kira Muratova shows the tiny details of everyday Soviet life,and, again , banal as they are ,they are a hair-raising horror.The dialogue is deliberately laconic and void of any sense, showing the ever-growing people's inability to communicate and understand each other.The sound track ( by another under-estimated talent, Oleg Karavaichuk)adds to the atmosphere of hopeless and meaningless existence.Of course,Sasha (the name of the protagonist),will leave his despotic ( but loving!) mother sooner or later, but where for (c)
故事发生在1692年的马萨诸塞州,在一个地处偏远的小镇之中,生活着一群虔诚又愚昧的人们。女孩阿比盖尔(薇诺娜·瑞德 Winona Ryder 饰)是牧师的侄女,因此在镇上享有很高的声誉,凡是她说的话人们都信,凡是她做的事人们都赞成。凭借着自己的“特权”,阿比盖尔将数十名她看不惯的女子以“女巫”之名送上了绞刑架,这其中就有约翰(丹尼尔·戴-刘易斯 Daniel Day Lewis 饰)的妻子伊莉莎贝斯(琼·艾伦 Joan Allen 饰)。 约翰一直都将阿比盖尔的狼子野心看在眼里,但由于两人之间的情人关系,他只得保持缄默,直到阿比盖尔将魔爪伸向了伊莉莎贝斯,约翰才明白事态的严重性。约翰向法官告发了阿比盖尔的罪行,然而,却没有人相信他的“胡言乱语”。
A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving them both to rui
女教师萨曼莎(吉娜·戴维斯 Geena Davis 饰)和8岁的女儿一起在宁静的小镇里过着安逸的生活,一切都令她感到十分满意,除了她曾经失去过部分记忆这一点。在一次车祸中,她失去的记忆开始复苏,而脑中出现的一些零碎片段让她对自己曾经的身份产生了怀疑。 通过私家侦探米奇(塞缪尔·杰克逊 Samuel L. Jackson 饰)的帮助,萨曼莎得知自己竟是一名联邦调查局的特工,而在调查局里,一个无意中得知了老板秘密的特工是不受欢迎的。萨曼莎仍然健在的消息不胫而走,她能够感觉到,一些非常残暴的恐怖分子正在渐渐接近她和她的女儿,他们的目的只有一个,那就是将她除之而后快。
The Doll is an adaptation of the novel, The Doll (novel) by Bolesław Prus, which is regarded by many as one of the finest Polish novels ever written and, along with Pharaoh (novel), made Bolesław Prus a potential candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. The influence of Émile Zola is evident, and some have compared the novel to Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; both were Prus's contemporaries. The movie, however, may be more compared to Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, (The Red and the Black). The Doll constitutes a panorama of life in Warsaw between 1878 and 1879, and at the same time is a subtle story of three generations of Polish idealists, their psychological complications, their involvement in the history of the nineteenth century, social dramas, moral problems and the experience of tragic existence. At the same time this story describes the disintegration of social relationships and the growing separation of a society whose aristocratic elite spreads the models of vanity and idleness. In the bad air of a backward country, anti-Semitic ideas are born, valuable individuals meet obstacles on their way, and scoundrels are successful. This poetic love story follows a nouveau riche merchant, Stanislaw Wokulski, through a series of trials and tribulations occasioned by his obsessive passion for an aristocratic beauty, Izabela Lecka, played by the famous Polish actress, Beata Tyszkiewicz. Plot As a descendant of an impoverished Polish noble family, young Wokulski is forced to work as a waiter at Hopfer's, a Warsaw restaurant, while dreaming of a life in science. After taking part in the failed 1863 Uprising against Tsarist Russia, he is sentenced to exile in Siberia. On eventual return to Warsaw, he becomes a salesman at Mincel's haberdashery. Marrying the late owner's widow (who eventually dies), he comes into money and uses it to set up a partnership with a Russian merchant he had met while in exile. The two merchants go to Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, and Wokulski makes a fortune supplying the Russian Army. The enterprising Wokulski now proves a romantic at heart, falling in love with Izabela, daughter of the vacuous, bankrupt aristocrat, Tomasz Łęcki. In his quest to win Izabela, Wokulski begins frequenting theatres and aristocratic salons; and to help her financially distressed father, founds a company and sets the aristocrats up as shareholders in his business.The indolence of these aristocrats, who secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his help (in secret) to Izabela's impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection. In the end she consents to accept him, but without true devotion or love.(wikipedia)