The movie is generally lacking in character development. The film at one point follows the creepiest-looking gangster (Flavio Bucci from the "The Night Train Murders") to his home where he is shacking up with another gangster's wife and her kid, but more than character development this seems to be more an excuse for another sex scene. The Placido character has an interesting flashback of him working on a filthy fishing barge, which is contrasted with a fantasy where he is piloting a yacht. This movie is very class-conscious in the way it has this poor Sicilian boy falling for a rich, northern girl (the Italian title "La Orca" comes from the designer outfit she's wearing). Placido is pretty good here, but this handsome, light-complexioned hunk is not too convincing as a lower-class Sicilian ruffian. As for Neihaus, I can't decide if she is a bad actress, or is just playing a really obnoxious character (she's more Paris Hilton than Patty Hearst). She does get naked several times which, judging from the English, title was the primary consideration.
Lucjan is a theatre actor whose health is failing. He forgets his lines on stage and feels confused and out of place in his daily life. He decides to end his acting career and soon winds up in a nursing home. In this new place, the elderly man misses his late wife. He starts having nightmares that seem to become real. In one of them, he discovers a passage into a magical world deceptively similar to his theatre. Lucjan starts living in two parallel dimensions – real life and the fairy tale – that become increasingly dependent on each other and intertwined. His immersion in the imaginary world leads to an unexpected ending. A bittersweet treatise on passing. The fairy-tale world Lucjan creates is not so much a metaphor for death as a symbolic reconciliation to its coming.
狄德利希·赫斯林是奈泽西小城造纸厂老板的儿子。他从小欺软怕硬,害怕权势,又追求权势。他爱在老师面前打小报告,以看到别人挨批评而高兴。上了寄宿学校后,他更多的接触到女孩。当他获得他的爱情后,却拒绝与之结婚,因为她还有另外一个追求者,因为被他认为不够纯洁。他也拿到了博士学位。但不是为了就职或进行学术研究,而是为了追求金钱势力。他父亲去世后,由他接替父亲当造纸厂的老板。他见风使舵,周旋于自由党人和社会民... 《臣仆》是亨利希·曼批判现实主义文学的代表作。导演试图通过影片作一次人的本性的揭露。通过巧妙的蒙太奇和画面的叠化,对“臣仆精神”进行了无情的讽刺。当表现狄德利希·赫斯林的奴性时,利用,利用了俯视镜头,把他低三下四跪近皇帝的样子缩成蛆虫般大小。表现他以势欺人时,又利用了仰视镜头,把他放大到巨人一般,将帝国时代奴颜卑膝,可鄙而危害社会的德国小市民的典型刻画地淋漓尽致,
遥远的北欧地区,瑞典的斯德哥尔摩一片银装素裹,寒气逼人。12岁少年奥斯卡(Kåre Hedebrant 凯尔•赫德布朗特 饰)生活在一个单亲家庭,他在学校形单影只,饱受欺负;回家后则偷偷搜集关于各类凶杀案的剪报,或者深夜挥着小刀在树上发泄着自己的愤怒。 新搬来的小孩爱莉(Lina Leandersson 莉娜•莱纳德尔森 饰)走进了奥斯卡的生活,他们慢慢成为朋友,并逐渐产生爱情。而就在此时,奥斯卡无意中发现爱莉一个令人毛骨悚然的秘密…… 本片改编自瑞典小说家约翰•林德科维斯特(John Ajvide Lindqvist)2004年的同名畅销书,并荣获2008年翠贝卡电影节最高奖、2008高森博格电影节最佳北欧电影奖及柯达最佳摄影奖。
2005 年,舞会后派对原本是一个欢乐的夜晚,但很快却变成了伊菲最可怕的噩梦。她从那晚起就一直背负着一个黑暗的秘密,直到成年,这个秘密仍然困扰着她的日常生活。
Who really is Diabolik, the ruthless Italian comic book antihero? The final chapter of the Manetti Bros. adaptation sets out to find the answer. Taking a leap in time to the 1970s, a period of unrest marked by the Vallanzasca and Magliana gangs, student protests and street killings. The story begins with car chases and machine gun shots that leave innocent victims dead on the street. It’s not Diabolik pulling the trigger, as he has his own code of ‘professional’ ethics and only kills when necessary. Instead, it’s a gang of criminals responsible for the bloodshed, wreaking havoc in the city with gratuitous and unscrupulous violence. Captured by the gang, Diabolik and his nemesis, Inspector Ginko, find themselves locked in a cell with no way out.
富有的中年人M结束出差准备回国,在机场,他目睹了一位年轻的阿拉伯男子在安检时引发的纷争。在一场无关紧要的争吵后,M一路跟随着这位年轻人,并在飞行过程中警觉地观察着他的一举一动。年轻人很快注意到M的行为,挑衅地看着他,神秘低语“你什么也没错过!” 一系列令人不安的事件接踵而至。M变得疑神疑鬼,疑心他的生活里存在着一个更大的阴谋。他怀疑年轻人在跟踪他,甚至可能入侵了家里的安防系统,这一切让他安全感尽失。在浏览阴谋论网站时,他对自身危险的处境和脆弱的社会秩序变得深信不疑。 M的女朋友认为他的疑虑实在是大惊小怪,并意识到两人的关系已经走入虚无。一位同事和M有同样的顾虑,却更担心M自己的行为。M决定直面日益严峻的威胁。他坚信恶魔在夜晚现身。于是他设下陷阱,决心迎接他认为即将降临的危险。
本片是费拉里对现代社会文明和小家庭中男子的作用的最新探讨的成果。工程师热拉尔德被妻子抛弃了,并把小儿子皮耶罗特留给了他。当工厂宣布休假时,他把保姆当作情人;在短短的时间内,他重新经受了令人伤脑筋的以两性斗争为特点的两人关系发展的全过程。热拉尔德完全被以性交为表现的男性意识所支配。当他同情人的关系发生危机时,他的情人却和他的前妻成了好朋友。他出于抗议和绝望用一把厨房用的电锯把自己的生殖器割掉了。这个可以作为模式的事件的大部分 (就象在戏剧舞台上一样)发生在一套高层小公寓里。费拉里批判了他的主人公的大男子主义,同时也表现了由于生活(工作,住宅,千篇一律的生活秩序,孤独寂寞)造成的绝望和灰心丧气。如果说影片留下了一种相互矛盾的印象,那是由于影片以独特的方式提出了问题:这个男人是他的行为的牺牲品,也是妇女全面反抗的牺牲品;费拉里在这部影片中同样使用了多种手法,而且通过一些“煽动性"的细节和效果来吸引更多的观众。