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　　年轻的美国导演米切尔｀哈文刚刚为他的下一部大作找到了素材——一个围绕着美丽的维尔玛和她的政客情夫拉斐而展开的真实的犯罪故事。他们在欺诈计划败露之后，枪杀了州长代表，最终这对时运不济的情侣戏剧性地双双自尽。

　　故事发生在美丽的巴塞罗那，美国女孩维姬（丽贝卡·豪尔 Rebecca Hall 饰）和克里斯蒂娜（斯嘉丽·约翰逊 Scarlett Johansson 饰）在度假时认识了名声并不太好的艺术家胡安（哈维尔·巴登 Javier Bardem 饰）。性格迥异的两姐妹在第二次遇到胡安后，对于胡安结伴去奥维耶多过周末的的邀请，热情奔放的克里斯蒂娜一下子就爽快答应了，而即将结婚的维姬却感到深深的不安。
　　奥维耶多发生了让人意想不到的事情，原本应该和胡安一夜春宵的克里斯蒂娜因病躺在床上休息，而理智现实的维姬却和胡安一夜风流。
　　当三个人再次回到巴塞罗那之后，维姬的未婚夫道格前来陪伴她，维姬的生活似乎归于平静。而当克里斯蒂娜开始了与胡安热恋并同居的生活之时，胡安的前妻玛丽娅（佩内洛普·克鲁兹 Penélope Cruz 饰）突然出现，这三人之间构筑起一种奇特的关系。于是在盛夏的充满浪漫气息的欧洲名城，一段诙谐而又深刻的关于爱的故事拉开了序幕。
　　在2009年第81届奥斯卡上，佩内洛普·克鲁兹凭借此片获得最佳女配角奖。

　　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.

　　故事发生在六十年代，讲述了长年在外报道第三世界内游击战争、革命演变的著名的通讯记者Jerzy (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz饰演) 生活分崩离析的全过程。角色取材于导演的好友，波兰家喻户晓的著名作家、记者Ryszard Kapuściński.
　　影片由Jerzy在一个娱乐性脱口秀作嘉宾开场，当晚当Jerzy回到家，却发现他的妻子已带着小女儿跟一个年轻男人不辞而别。Jerzy开始挽救自己的家庭……

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　　《奈河》是中國導演羅斌的首齣文藝片，他透過電郵訴說構建故事的來由：「用《奈河》開篇，是因我希望故事是關於『生死之間』的抉擇。中國文化中，我們都有一種共識，一旦渡過奈河，便是往生，不可能甦醒。一切對於生死的抉擇，只能在奈河邊。因此，奈河也即是生與死的關鍵節點。選擇輪迴，是因為中國傳統文化中，一切都是在因果輪迴當中的......」
　　《奈河》講述的是一家三代人的故事—遇上車禍的強強成了植物人、被送到嬰兒臨終關懷中心的棄嬰新新以及叛逆少女盈盈由城市回村後被無賴姦污。「如果仔細梳理，你會發現這三代人對於『生死』抉擇的不同態度已發生了改變，也正因如此，我們才會感覺到希望和絕望。三條線中的孩子既是上一代在選擇中『被選擇』的物件，又是自身這一代做出『選擇』的人。在下一代身上，他們會有巨大的影響。」