妹妹苏西（Angharad Aubrey 饰）的死亡带给了乔伊（William Dix 饰）巨大的创伤，因梦为此，因梦他甚至接受了心理治疗。乔伊坚信，妹妹的死亡和家里的保姆（贝蒂·戴维斯 Bette Davis 饰）有关，可是家中没有人相信他，就连乔伊的父母也觉得这只是乔伊的妄想而已。某日，乔伊的母亲因为食物中毒被送往了医院，她的妹妹佩（吉儿·贝纳特 Jill Bennett 饰）来到乔伊家照看他，恰巧撞见了保姆想要用枕头闷死乔伊的一幕。佩患有心脏病，在病发时，保姆拒绝拿药给佩，眼睁睁的看着她挣扎在死亡线上。原来，保姆曾经有过一个私生子，但这个孩子不幸死去了，孩子的死给保姆的精神带来了严重的打击，才造成了这种种的悲剧。
廖自升
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.
魏斌
回复 :木匠神人鲁班留下一本秘笈《缺一门》，根据书里的提示制造木艺，能有惊人效果；然而此书却有一副作用，即拥有此书者，总不能十全十美，永远有不可预料的祸处在等待。若干年前，“鲁班传人”江南鹤带着这本秘笈出宫，凭着书内记载制造出快乐摇摇椅——让人返老还童。这引起了乾柜女老板和她骈头小六的歹心，他们谋害了江南鹤，并夺走了《缺一门》。明朝太子朱笑天（立威廉 饰）一心成为鲁班那样的顶级木匠，微服出宫寻找《缺一门》，结识了江南鹤的师妹唐小蝶（黄奕 饰）。当他们发现江南鹤已经被老板娘杀害后，一路追寻老板娘到龙门镇——那里正准备着热闹的抛绣球之夜，龙门镇的名门望族南宫家正在招婿，乱打乱撞的老板娘和小六成为了京城艺人，而朱笑天更是接到了绣球。各路人马一起上演这场缤纷闹剧。为了《缺一门》，大家都在拼命用力；然而，当它到手后才明白，自己最想得到的，恰恰就是永不能得到的。
回复 :羅雷娜·拉米瑞茲是墨西哥的塔拉烏馬拉族人，過著恬靜的鄉下生活，唯一不平凡的是她會穿上涼鞋，參加超級馬拉松比賽
