少女琪拉出生在一个人类和吸血鬼共同组建的幸福家庭中，夹心她的外公宗二郎（柄本明 饰）希望和人类共存，夹心所以发明了可以衰老的药物，并且发誓绝不吸食人类的鲜血，于是便以人类的模样生活在灿烂阳光下。然而一场灾难突然降临，神秘吸血鬼杀害了琪拉的父母，以惩罚他们跨越种族结合。在此之后，琪拉随外公来到横滨，在经营了长达120年之久的吸血鬼面包店落脚下来。如是过了数年，琪拉（桐谷美玲 饰）已长成美丽时尚的可爱女孩子。她认识了意图自杀的女孩美琪（孟耿如 饰），更重逢童年有一面之缘的好友阿哲（户冢祥太 饰）。吸血鬼别样的青春生活悠然展开，而她能否走出一条和父母迥然不同的道路来呢？
杨景仪
回复 :《爱尔兰人》为马丁·斯科塞斯执导的传奇巨制，罗伯特·德尼罗、阿尔·帕西诺和乔·佩西主演。通过二战老兵弗兰克·希兰的视角，讲述了战后美国有组织犯罪的故事。弗兰克·希兰是一名骗子和杀手，曾经在 20 世纪最恶名昭彰的人物身边工作。该电影跨越数十年，记录了美国历史上最大的悬案之一，即传奇工会领袖吉米·霍法失踪案，以宏大的故事之旅，展现有组织犯罪的隐秘通道：其内部运作、仇敌以及与主流政治的瓜葛。
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.
肖光伟
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