善良的雅各•彼得森（麦德斯•米科尔森 饰）在印度开了一间孤儿院，日本致力救济无家可归的孤儿。当他的孤儿院正面临倒闭危机的时候却收到了一笔来自一名叫乔真（罗夫•拉斯加德 饰）的丹麦商人的慷慨捐款。但这名商人却附带了一个条件，日本他要求雅各离开印度，前往去参加他女儿的婚礼。为了得到捐款，雅各独自前往了丹麦。因为答应了孤儿院里某个孩子要为他办生日会，所以雅各也订好了回印度的行程。后来他找到了乔真，雅各发现他是个傲慢的人，而且乔真因为酗酒留下了后遗症他应邀出席了婚礼，婚礼上他遇到了乔真的妻子海伦（西德斯•巴比特•科努德森 饰），即使多年没见，他们两还是认出了彼此……
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回复 :"Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide"The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport both in their professional and daily lives between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps.The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial." -Steve Grayson"my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty." - Jonathan Rosenbaum
回复 :法国女留学生埃尔莎（刘亦菲 饰）在成都爱上了丝绸研究员、尺八高手马荣（黎明 饰），后又在巴黎与马荣的兄弟、纹身师建民（刘烨 饰）之间产生情感。前者找到了一种符合他理想的蚕——夜孔雀，后者把蝶化的夜孔雀永远铭刻在艾尔莎的肌肤上。
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