千金小姐特里·兰多（凯瑟琳·赫本 Katharine Hepburn 饰）家境殷实地位高贵，亚洲区然而性格倔强的兰多却不想依靠家族的关系登上百老汇的舞台。怀揣梦想满怀抱负的兰多住进了一个带有戏剧色彩的俱乐部。兰多从而结识了她的室友珍·梅特兰（金格尔·罗杰斯 Ginger Rogers 饰），亚洲区一个夸夸其谈的女演员。面对残酷的竞争，兰多渐渐发现自己跟其他人的不同，她演戏只是出于热爱，而其他人却是为了生存。兰多的父亲决定暗中帮助女儿的事业，却不曾想过他的暗中帮忙反而对女儿造成了更大的伤害。影片荣获1938年第10届奥斯卡金像奖最佳影片、最佳女配角、最佳导演和最佳剧本4项提名。
回复 :讲述四位女性杀害她们丈夫并集体分尸的故事。影片的四位女主人公同是便当工厂的女工，性格各异却代表着现代的日本女性：曾在银行工作的雅子擅长持家理财，然而隐隐当上一家之主的她却无法得到长期失业的丈夫与叛逆儿子的沟通，长期都生活在压抑和孤独里；守寡的吾妻长期任劳任怨的服侍着瘫痪的婆婆；怀孕的弥生得到的不是关怀，而是嗜赌如命丈夫的虐打；贪慕虚荣的邦子负债累累，只为了换取物质上的享受。前三位女性都有着日本女性传统的美德，善良、坚强、甚至有些逆来顺受；邦子则是传统与现代文明冲突下的产物，她即无法摆脱日本女性社会地位低下的困境，又不能独立在社会上立足，只可惜无论传统美德还是蜕变的新生代，都无法得到男性和社会的尊重，桐野夏生细腻的笔触在平山秀幸的镜头前得到了最大的发挥，如果说弥生杀夫是为了顽强生存的挣扎，那么后来的集体分尸事件则是一种无声的抗争，“就像在工厂里做便当一样”，四位女主人公遭受的压抑得到了宣泄，更重要的是她们寻回了自信，开始思索在人生中的定位，开始尝试追求。然而这一切只能在秘密的情况下进行，这种挣扎与控诉是无法得到社会认可与宽容的，当她们杀人分尸的罪行即将败露时，她们被迫选择了逃亡，自卫杀死酒太保的吾妻烧掉了自己的房子和婆婆的尸体，在对寂寞人生的一声叹息后默默等待法律的制裁，弥生在半途分娩，毫无主见的邦子跟随雅子搭上了去北边的长途货柜车，为的是完成雅子去看极昼的梦想，影片在三位女性的笑声中结束，但对观众心灵的触动丝毫不亚于《末路狂花》结尾冲下悬崖的震撼，只是要唤起内心一个简单梦想的追求，却要付出如此大的代价，平山秀幸折射出的不只只社会现状的冷漠疏离，还有对传统意义上的女权主义的颠覆
周冰倩
回复 :Set in a small Quebec town in the late-1920′s, this emotional drama follows the life and exploits of Celeste Beaumont, a talented young pianist who gains local celebrity at the town movie theater for her gifts as a silent film pianist. Awkward Pierre Blaudell is her biggest fan and eventually marries her. Shortly after this she bears his son, Pierre, who joins the army. She insists on joining him at the base and his meddlesome, snooty parents insist she give them her son. Pierre is killed in the war, and Celeste flees to New York where she finds steady employment as a jazz pianist. She finds a life-long companion with a black musician and chronicles her experiences in a diary that she passes on to her son after he grows up. Her son becomes a painter and once his own son, Antoine, is grown, reads him the story of Celeste, the youth’s grandmother. Intrigued, Antoine heads to the Big Apple in hopes of finding her.This movie is an emotional drama about how Antoine, played beautifully by François Méthé, discovers the details of his heritage. This film won many awards in Canada and at Cannes in 1988. François Méthé, who was about 11-years-old, never acted again after this movie.From IMDbA quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn’t seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents. The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long letter to him, written over the years, with details of her youth, her first job as a pianist at a cinema, the coming of talkies, her marriage, and how he came to live with his grandparents. As he reads through the materials and her story comes to life, his son Antoine, who’s about 10 or 12, tries to break through his father’s silence and sorrow by taking matters into his own hands.
回复 :在俄罗斯某个偏僻的小山村，人烟罕至，静谧非常，这里的景色如同律动的油画一般，美得忧伤，美得窒息。一位老母亲（Gudrun Geyer 饰）即将走到人生的终点，时间已没有意义，每一刻都会成为永恒。儿子（Aleksei Ananishnov 饰）陪在母亲身边，精心照料她的起居。他耐心倾听着母亲关于梦的叙述，带着她出外散心，为她读明信片。在秋风骤起的时节，这对母子默默地享受着这最后的聚会……本片荣获1997年莫斯科国际电影节安德烈•塔科夫斯基奖、俄罗斯电影评论奖和评审团特别大奖。
