Like his fiery study of a popular milieu in Fièvre, Louis Delluc's early masterpiece of impressionist cinema, La Femme de Nulle Part, is almost impossible to see outside of rare archival projections in Paris. Shot in natural settings, and stripped of all that is not cinema, Delluc's psychological drama featuring symbolist muse Eve Francis is an experiment in 'direct style.' A fascinating study in the relationship between past and present, memory, dream and reality, this revolutionary film would be a source of inspiration for successive filmmakers, from Francois Truffaut to Alain Resnais.
In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker's life he's an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he's in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he's a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a children's choir. In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men; he recalls lovers and his mother's cremation. A nurse sits beside him on his last night; in his last breath, he reaches forward and back..
Divided into three kingdoms -- Enfer (Hell), Purgatoire (Purgatory) and Paradis (Paradise) -- Notre Musique is an indictment of modern times. 頑皮老頭高達在新作挑釁如常,堅持如舊,對電影愛情如一,但從形式到內容,卻續有新境。比前作《愛之頌》更練達更擊中要害,是他近年最激的反思作品。三段結構的開篇〈地獄〉,戰地實錄與荷里活戰爭片交替,寓意彰甚:人類真會嗜戰。〈煉獄〉借薩拉熱窩做說書人,真實與虛構人物(包括高達自己)到此舉行文化圓桌會議,大家在寬恕迷宮中兜轉,唯有佇立已修復的莫斯塔古橋,才感一絲希望。高達最後領我們到〈天堂〉,人間竟有春色如許?但-有美軍駐守!全片最動人一幕:學生問 DV 可否打救電影?高達哀哀面向鏡頭,良久不語......
A part of Joan of Arc's life. At the beginning, Jeanne (Joan) has already left Domremy, she is trying to convince a captain to escort her to moxia.cc the Dauphin. It ends during Jeanne's first battle, at Orleans. Meanwhile, Jeanne is depicted more as a warrior than a saint (all cliches are avoided), with only her faith for strength.
在斯蒂芬.路德医院的儿童看护房里,位于移植名单首位9岁的山姆.库佩正在等待着他的新肝脏。他的妈妈40岁的丽莎.库佩心脏手术的主任医师尽管每天都在拯救病人的生命,却不能救她的儿子,而感觉非常无助。当仅存希望的一个肝脏,在运输的路上损坏后,选择非法途径的肝脏成为了她的唯一选择。她抛弃了她一生都在致力于的医学系统,秘密地去了一个不知名的非洲国家的New Day 诊所。在一个废弃的墙的背后,山姆被作为人质,迫使丽莎为一个美国的有钱人62岁的克莱顿.泰勒做心脏移植手术。丽莎的希波克拉底誓词和她的母性的爱在手术桌上吉利的地征战着。当得知为了此手术,所要得的一个心脏,她要拿去一个年幼无知的小女孩的生命去换回山姆时,她立刻认识到,在这个游戏中一些人的生命的价值要比其他人还重要。