青春未央之舞·梦

　　Justine Juel Gillmer(《地球百子》《荒原》)编写剧本，基于哈夫特之子Alan Scott Haft写作的书籍《Harry Haft: Survivor Of Auschwitz, Challenger Of Rocky Marciano》，讲述一个男人在奥斯维辛集中营被迫与狱友进行残酷的角斗，胜利意味着能活着等待另一天的考验，而他击败的76名对手则走上了死亡之路。哈夫特承担了沉重的内疚之情，他尝试通过参加二战后备受瞩目的拳击大赛、与洛基·马西安诺等传奇人物比赛而重新找到活下去的理由，并希望能找到他在战争前爱上的那个女子，她激励了他在纳粹手中活下去的斗志。

　　这部现实主义风格的影片突出表现了人与人之间的隔膜和孤独。约翰·卡萨维茨既是性格演员，又是个成功的导演。这部独立制作的影片花了8个月的时间拍摄，所耗费的5万美元是他当演员时攒下的。为节约成本，他用16mm的摄影机在借用的民房里即兴拍摄，并在自己的车库里将影片翻印成35mm的影片。他花了整整3年的时间才找到代理发行的公司，但上映后却受到好评，并获得奥斯卡最佳编剧、最佳男女配角金像奖的提名。
　　本片描写丈夫理查德在外面和妓女调情，妻子玛丽娅却和流浪汉同床共宿，当妻子的奸情被丈夫发觉后，理查德痛骂妻子，而玛丽娅则向他声明他们的关系彻底结束。

　　As a child, Luther Watts was deeply affected by seeing a circus geek (someone who bites the heads off live chickens in a circus sideshow). Finally paroled after serving 20 years in prison, he terrorizes the residents of his hometown by making chicken noises, crowing like a rooster and attacking people. He winds up at a farm run by a woman and her daughter, where he takes them captive and then starts killing off her neighbors. The mother realizes she and her daughter must escape before he kills them, too.

　　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.

　　弗朗索瓦（Philippe Marlaud 饰）深深爱着名为安娜（玛丽·瑞莱 Marie Rivière 饰）的女子，然而，由于工作的缘故，两人几乎无法见面。一次偶然中，弗朗索瓦看到安娜和她的前男友克里斯汀（马修·加里瑞 Mathieu Carrière 饰）在一起，之后，他又发现克里斯汀和另一名陌生女子有所来往。于是，弗朗索瓦起了跟踪克里斯汀的念头。 在跟踪的途中，弗朗索瓦结识了名为露西（Anne-Laure Meury 饰）的女子，在得知了事情的来龙去脉之后，露西对于弗朗索瓦的行为表示了理解，同时加入了他的跟踪队伍中。终于，弗朗索瓦从安娜的口中得知了陌生女子的真实身份，她和克里斯汀是兄妹。同时，露西亦投向了另一个男人的怀抱。

　　帝国珍珠公司的镇店之宝，一粒名为“金星”的天然珍珠被盗。这粒“金星”的价值据说足以买下位于纽 约的一整栋办公大厦。案件曝光之后，帝国珍珠公司的股价暴跌。由此，帝国珍珠的会长岩仓寿三郎（西田敏 行 饰）和他的同父异母妹妹现任社长恒子（财前直见 饰）为了争夺社长之位展开激烈斗争。通过媒体 报道得知岩仓家庭内部矛盾的泽口信子（米仓凉子 饰）用散乱的头发和黑框眼镜隐藏了自己的美貌，以家政 妇的身份潜入岩仓家…
　　信子潜入岩仓家的目的非常明确。此前她去商场观看展出的“金星”时，曾遇到一个神秘男子。他似乎与 “金星”和岩仓家都有某种渊源，看到信子美得如同从荷兰画家弗美尔笔下的《戴珍珠耳环的少女》，就劝信 子把“金星”戴上试试。考虑到周围有很多其他顾客和记者，信子不假思索地拒绝并离开现场，但她珍视的珍 珠耳环却不翼而飞。据售货员说，珍珠耳环被神秘男子拿走了。怀疑神秘男子与“金星”被盗案相关的信 子认为，神秘男子一定会出现在岩仓家，而岩仓家居然也有一幅与神秘男子十分相似的肖像画。这名神秘男子 到底是什么人？
　　随着会长和社长的明争暗斗进入白热化，帝国珍珠的股价莫名地持续上涨…“金星”到底是在哪里被盗？又是如何被盗？窥探到大家庭的秘密和阴谋的信子又将如何行动呢？