百团大战

　　Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.
　　Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)
　　As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.
　　The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).
　　Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.

　　1986 年，在北加利福尼亚州，奥莉薇和哥哥以及朋友们踏上了一次露营之旅去观赏哈雷彗星带来的流星雨。但这个夜晚却变成了一场噩梦，因为这场流星雨将一个水手变成了可怕的杀人机器。

　　A family reunion at a remote mansion takes a lethal turn when they are trapped inside and forced to play a deadly survival game where only one will make it out alive.

　　故事发生在第二次世界大战期间，为了躲避战火，坚强的母亲塞西拉（索菲娅·罗兰 Sophia Loren 饰）带着13岁的女儿罗塞塔（艾伦诺拉·布朗 Eleonora Brown 饰）离开了他们的故乡罗马，暂时来到地处偏远的小镇西赛罗定居。在这里，塞西拉结识了准备成为医生的小伙子米凯尔（让-保罗·贝尔蒙多 Jean Paul Belmondo 饰）。
　　米凯尔是一个生性浪漫的男人，热爱文学，他教罗塞塔识字读诗，久而久之，罗塞塔爱上了他，可是很显然，米凯尔的目光始终锁定在塞西拉的身上。为了帮助塞西拉搞到食物填饱肚子，米凯尔来到了父亲的朋友家，哪知道在那里遇见了一个德国军官，德国军官强烈谴责米凯尔不上战场的行为，并且打算强行把他带走。