简介:Love at First Stream follows the stories of a streamer, a student, a breadwinner, and a heartthrob as they explore love and friendships online to escape their realities offline.
简介:Nothing compares to the magic and excitement of the holidays in New York City, where the streets blaze with lights, windows dazzle and a special box from Tiffany could change the course of a person’s life. Or several lives. Rachel and Gary (Zoey Deutch, Ray Nicholson) are happy enough but not quite ready for that big commitment. Ethan and Vanessa (Kendrick Smith Sampson, Shay M...
简介:It has been said that most great twentieth century novels include scenes in a hotel, a symptom of the vast uprooting that has occurred in the last century: James Ivory begins Quartet with a montage of the hotels of Montparnasse, a quiet prelude before our introduction to the violently lost souls who inhabit them.Adapted from the 1928 autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet is the story of a love quadrangle between a complicated young West Indian woman named Marya (played by Isabelle Adjani), her husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins), a manipulative English art patron named Heidler (Alan Bates), and his painter wife Lois (Maggie Smith). The film is set in the Golden Age of Paris, Hemingway's "moveable feast" of cafe culture and extravagant nightlife, glitter and literati: yet underneath is the outline of something sinister beneath the polished brasses and brasseries.When Marya's husband is put in a Paris prison on charges of selling stolen art works, she is left indigent and is taken in by Heidler and his wife: the predatory Englishman (whose character Rhys bases on the novelist Ford Madox Ford) is quick to take advantage of the new living arrangement, and Marya finds herself in a stranglehold between husband and wife. Lovers alternately gravitate toward and are repelled by each other, now professing their love, now confessing their brutal indifference -- all the while keeping up appearances. The film explores the vast territory between the "nice" and the "good," between outward refinement and inner darkness: after one violent episode, Lois asks Marya not to speak of it to the Paris crowd. "Is that all you're worried about?" demands an outraged Marya. "Yes," Lois replies with icy candor, "as a matter of fact."Adjani won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her performances in Quartet: her Marya is a volatile compound of French schoolgirl and scorned mistress, veering between tremulous joy and hysterical outburst. Smith shines in one of her most memorable roles: she imbues Lois with a Katherine-of-Aragon impotent rage, as humiliated as she is powerless in the face of her husband's choices. Her interactions with Bates are scenes from a marriage that has moved from disillusionment to pale acceptance.Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory's screenplay uses Rhys's novel as a foundation from which it constructs a world that is both true to the novel and distinctive in its own right, painting a society that has lost its inhibitions and inadvertently lost its soul. We are taken to mirrored cafes, then move through the looking glass: Marya, in one scene, is offered a job as a model and then finds herself in a sadomasochistic pornographer's studio. The film, as photographed by Pierre Lhomme, creates thoroughly cinematic moments that Rhy's novel could not have attempted: in one of the Ivory's most memorable scenes, a black American chanteuse (extraordinarily played by Armelia McQueen) entertains Parisian patrons with a big and brassy jazz song, neither subtle nor elegant. Ivory keeps the camera on the singer's act: there is something in her unguarded smile that makes the danger beneath Montparnasse manners seem more acute.
简介:查理(伊恩·基思 Ian Keith 饰)爱上了厨师的女儿艾玛(科琳·格里菲斯 Corinne Griffith 饰),然而,这段感情是注定不会受到众人的祝福的,为了避免东窗事发,查理将艾玛送到了自己的叔叔汉密尔顿(HB·沃纳 H.B. Warner 饰)家。没过多久,艾玛就识破了查理的谎言,明白自己其实是被后者无情的抛弃了。绝望和愤怒之中,她决定嫁给一直对自己很好的汉密尔顿,可是这段仓促的婚姻很显然并不能给艾玛带来真正的幸福。一天,艾玛结识了名为尼尔森(维克特·凡科尼 Victor Varconi 饰)的军官,为了能够让尼尔森在港口同拿破仑的军队交战,艾玛不惜抛头露面四处奔走,一来二去之间,两人相爱了。
简介:岸田智也(市原隼人)和佐藤葵(上野树里)在大学结识。二人非常合拍,葵还常常给智也出谋划策如何追女生。葵是独立电影制作小组的成员,她要在毕业前导演一部叫《THE END OF THE WORLD》的电影,于是决定选用智也当男主角。无奈毕业后,路开始分叉。葵引荐智也去了一间影视社工作,重遇那晚葵想说出对智也的情愫,然而终究没有开口。葵不久飞往美国留学。正巧智也抬头,看到天空挂着彩虹。他兴奋地拍下,发送给相隔重洋的葵,但是却得到了葵飞机失事罹难的噩耗。亲人同学都悲伤不已,用她生前的电影去悼念逝者,在智也的心目中,葵也始终朦胧的牵动着他内心的爱。
简介:Inspired by writer, director, and star Aml Ameen's life, Boxing Day follows Melvin (Ameen), a British author living in America, who returns home to London for Christmas to introduce his American fiancée, Lisa (King), to his eccentric British-Caribbean family. Their relationship is put to the test as she discovers the world her fiancée has left behind. Written by Deadline
简介:In the spring of 1986, there is an explosion in Chernobyl and a girl called Mimi arrives in a small village in Western Finland. She immediately fills 15-year-old Mariia’s life with radiating light. 20 years later Mariia returns home to take care of her sick mother, and memories of that meaningful summer start rising to the surface.