委托人1994

　　被麻袋罩着头、被绳子绑在一起的如月、初花月、殷春和弥生四人走在树林里，负责押解的霜月和冰月不仅不让她们休息，甚至不给她们水喝。霜月和冰月是伊贺的忍者，两人受命掳走敌对甲贺村落的女子，带回伊贺作慰安妇。和轻浮的冰月形成对比，霜月一脸冷漠地默默执行任务。女人们不知道自己为什么会被绑架，她们的反抗完全没有用。　　突然，神秘男子神无出现，绳子松开了，女人们四散而逃。霜月、冰月以及神无展开了追击。冰月好像猫逗老......

　　巫师梅林（尼科尔·威廉森 Nicol Williamson 饰）赐予了亚瑟王（尼吉尔·特瑞 Nigel Terry 饰）一把充满了魔力的神剑，在临终之前，亚瑟王将这把神剑插入了巨石之中，他立下遗嘱，若是有谁能够将神剑从石头中拔出，便可以获得成为英国国王的资格。
　　一晃眼数年过去，亚瑟王的私生子站在了巨石面前，顺理成章的拔出了神剑继承了王位，成为了新一代的亚瑟王。之后，他迎娶了名为昆妮弗（切瑞·朗西 Cherie Lunghi 饰）的女子为妻，并且创立了圆桌骑士组织，开创了历史上最辉煌的时代。然而 好景不长，昆妮弗爱上了圆桌骑士兰斯洛特（尼古拉斯·克莱 Nicholas Clay 饰），与此同时，家族中爆发的丑闻领国王的统治岌岌可危。

　　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.

　　1948年，洛杉矶的经济突趋繁荣，满怀希望的军人伊斯退役后到洛杉矶寻找工作，满怀信心的他，以为像他这样出色的黑人在洛杉矶不难找到合适的位置，怎料好不容易才找到一份在机场内当技工的工作，但不久又被老板解雇，更被房东催收欠租。就在绝望边缘之际，他受聘于神秘男子狄维去找寻一个失踪女子黛芬，而伊斯也因此而堕进狄维的圈套，他也不知不觉间被牵涉到恐吓、谋杀、政治的纠缠之中。