最后的死刑

　　曾参加过美国内战的退伍老兵埃森·爱德华兹（约翰·韦恩 John Wayne 饰）战争结束后返回家乡德克萨斯州，来到哥哥的农场希望与亲人重聚团圆。埃森一直暗恋着自己的嫂子，只把这份感情放在心底。然而一场科曼奇族的突袭，让埃森的心愿彻底粉碎。在这次印地安人的袭击中，埃森的哥嫂双双被杀，侄女黛比（娜塔利·伍德 Natalie Wood 饰）被掠，生死未卜。
　　为了给自己心爱的嫂子复仇，也为了找到黛比的下落，埃森在哥哥养子马丁（杰弗里·亨特 Jeffrey Hunter 饰）的陪伴下，开始了艰难的搜寻岁月。埃森不惜耗时五年和花费千元赏金来寻找酋长斯卡的下落，然而埃森对印第安人彻骨的仇恨和几近疯狂的举动，让马丁开始怀疑叔叔搜索黛比的真正原因，马丁甚至担心，埃森会杀死已被印第安人同化的黛比。

　　This daring, exciting story from northern Sri Lanka convincingly captures the madness in a land where the psychology of war is omnipresent. Three parallel stories deal with the attempts of ordinary village people to lead a normal life in abnormal circumstances. First feature film of Sanjeewa Pushpakumara.

　　精神错乱的15岁少女任人欺凌，背后隐藏着不为人知的悲惨身世,经过江边的张，发现一15岁少女目不转睛望着他，进而将他认作是哥哥而紧跟在后，起初他只觉少女精神异常而任意的欺凌，随着时日，渐渐发现常保沉默而显自闭的少女原来有个非常痛苦的一段过去……
　　影片根据作家崔尹的小说改编，以韩国光州5.18时期为时代背景。谈到创作意图，导演张善宇说：“故事最吸引我的地方就是1980年5月的光州。当时建立了很多拘禁违反戒严令‘犯人’的监狱。街头活报剧运动也十分活跃。这样一个特殊的时期应该用一部电影来呈现。”

　　故事发生在抗战时期，少女唐琪（林黛 饰）的父亲在战争中为了保卫祖国而英勇牺牲，母亲病重最终撒手人寰。孤苦无依的唐琪只得投靠住在天津的姨母。在那里，唐琪邂逅了名为醒亚的男子。经过了解，醒亚亦是一名孤儿，相似的人生经历让两颗孤独的心迅速靠近，碰撞出了爱情的火花。然而，唐琪的姨母擅自将她许配给了汉奸王科长，醒亚的姑父母也坚决反对两人之间的感情。为了避免沦为汉奸之妻的命运，唐琪毅然决然的离家出走，来到护士学校想要成为一名护士。
　　不幸的是，学校的校长是衣冠禽兽，他玷污了唐琪，致使心灰意冷的她沦落成为舞女。

　　上世纪90年代末东北爆发大规模下岗潮，女性失业尤为严重。很多女人听说当法国保姆能赚钱，便不惜背上巨债出国。到巴黎后发现求生无路，只好去“站街”。比利时导演奥利维耶偶然遇到她们，进行了长期调查，并找到王小帅任监制，以此拍摄出电影《下海》。

　　The American writer Joe arrives in Paris to research and write about Proust. He meets the Polish Karl and they become friends and costumers of brothels and restaurants. When the fifteen year-old Colette arrives in Paris, they both fall in love with her.
　　Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.
　　Very nice portrait of the thirties..., 23 April 2002
　　Author: Oreste (oreste.sl@sympatico.ca) from Montréal, Québec
　　Different from many other Chabrol movies that follow "Hitchock-like" patterns, _Jours tranquilles à Clichy_ relates the days a young American writer (Henry Miller) spent in the Gay Paris of the early thirties, with his polish-descent friend and their young Colette, a 14 years old-ish girl with whom they both fall in love. The story in itself doesn't send us from a surprising even to another but slowly lifts the curtain over the prostitution, pornography, libertinage and partying that seemed to oppose Paris so much to New York, in the eyes of Miller, searching for a change from the dull like he lead before. The story is a quest for Proust and his lost time, a quest for a new life, for thrills, for truth in forgetting oneself...

　　丹普斯肯恩（克里斯多夫·李维 饰）一直是位受尊敬的警探，表面上生活美满，妻子盖儿和弟弟尼克却私通已久，将他蒙在鼓里。一次突击中，丹普斯伤及脊椎，导致下半身瘫痪。绝望沮丧之余，他计划了一个诡异的方法，要让盖儿与尼克拿到他的寿险金，但结果却是盖儿与尼克身亡。资深警探莱哈特（乔伊·蒙泰格纳 饰）认为事有蹊翘，便着手调查发现许多疑点，他怀疑丹普斯假装瘫痪，于是将案子交给政风处，准备控告丹普斯，然而经过一番斗智较劲后，法官却因证据不足宣布撤销此案，莱哈特便……

　　The film (and the acting) is superbly done, but the story is intense. I like it for its' dark, thick, "Cul du Sac" psychology but it is certainly not for everyone for that very reason. Set in isolated, rural France makes this film all the more desperate.
　　The film is about strenuous relationships, loyalty - and despair. It is about accepting hardships without really understanding them. It is also about pity and how it is to be distinguished from love and admiration. I've seen many French films with the same intensity and I'm guessing that it will be mostly the French who will enjoy this film.
　　The acting is superb in this film – if you're in the right state of mind and don't loose your concentration. Jean-François Stevenin ALWAYS impresses me. He doesn't disappoint me here either. For general audiences, however, I'd recommend his performance in "Deux Lions au Soleil" which is much more easily palatable than "Peux de Vaches".
　　Despite the fact that I like "Peux de Vaches", I have difficulties recommending it to anyone other than French audiences and perhaps someone with a morose demeanor.

　　炎炎夏季，年事已高的女演员森本蓉子（杉本春子 饰）来到蓼科高原的山上避暑。迎接她的是帮助打理山中别墅已有30年时间的农妇丰子（乙羽信子 饰）及其女儿明美（濑尾智美 饰）。蓉子得知83岁的老园丁一年前自杀，并留下“就活到这吧”的遗言。谜样的话语让众人唏嘘不已。
　　不久，蓉子年轻时的演员朋友登美江（朝雾镜子 饰）和丈夫藤八郎（观世荣夫 饰）前来拜访，登美江患有老年痴呆，却执意再见好友一面，几个老年人度过了一段刺激有趣的美好时光。
　　数日后登美江夫妇离去，而蓉子亦在不经意间知晓了一个埋藏20多年的秘密……

　　情感关系已陷入僵局的科林（鲁伯特•艾弗雷特 Rupert Everett 饰）与玛丽（娜塔莎•理查德森 Natasha Richardson 饰），来到威尼斯度假，试图使他们慵懒无趣的生活有所改观。
　　一夜，他们邂逅了当地的罗伯特先生（克里斯托弗•沃肯 Christopher Walken 饰），他向这对陌生的恋人自揭童年的伤痕，并宣扬极端的男权主义。科林与玛丽感受到了某种难以名状的威胁，但对平淡生活的厌倦与追求刺激的心理，让他们不由自主地接受了罗伯特的邀请来到他家中。罗伯特的妻子卡洛琳（海伦•米伦 Helen Mirren 饰）向玛丽诉说着她与罗伯特复杂的虐恋关系，令玛丽的心理产生了一些暧昧的转变，加上这种不安的刺激，竟奇妙地重燃起她与科林之间久已熄灭的爱欲之火。
　　于是，与罗伯特夫妇再度相遇后，科林与玛丽不可自控地紧随而去，即便他们知道自己有可能会成为这段畸恋的祭品……
　　本片改编自英国小说家伊恩•迈克温的同名作品，由“新好莱坞”主将（作为马丁•斯科塞斯的金牌编剧而闻名于世）保罗•施拉德执导。

　　Leslie is a West Texas single mother struggling to provide for her son when she wins the lottery and a chance at a good life. But a few short years later the money is gone and Leslie is on her own, living hard and fast at the bottom of a bottle as she runs from the world of heartbreak she left behind.
　　With her charm running out and with nowhere to go, Leslie returns home. Unwelcome and unwanted by those she wronged, it’s Sweeney, a lonely motel clerk, who takes a chance when no one else will. With his support, Leslie comes face to face with the consequences of her actions, a life of regret, and a second chance to make a good life for her and her son.