张蓝花（李明启饰）现已年逾古稀，上原解放前她是做为给地主家冲喜的工具，上原被花轿抬进豪门的，情郎王天亮（李槐龙饰）冒死将她救出，然后参加了解放军，从此杳无音讯。如今，在美国的孙子王贵（李槐龙饰）即将回国完婚，一家人为孙子娶个什么样的媳妇争论不休。原来，当年她生下的独子王平安（房子斌饰）背着她爱上地主家闺女刘桂兰（范志博饰），并不顾她强烈反对，硬是在黄河岸边拜了堂，她真不想孙子也重蹈覆辙。在全家人的盼望下，王贵终于回来了，带回来的是一个结过婚的而且比王贵年龄还大的洋媳妇李香香（伊丽娜饰），这可把张蓝花气坏了。但香香的真诚渐渐感动了大家，在婚礼上，颠轿的唢呐声仿佛把张蓝花带到了久远年代......
回复 :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.
回复 :与父亲形同陌路的塞巴斯蒂安（斯蒂芬·卢梭 Stéphane Rousseau 饰）忽然接到母亲路易丝的电话，那个风流成性的历史教授父亲莱米如今躺在医院里，命不久矣。塞巴斯蒂安在一番犹豫之后赶回蒙特利尔，陪父亲走过最后一段时光。多年的隔膜以及生活方式的差异让这对父子从一开始就吵了个天翻地覆，但塞巴斯蒂安还是想尽办法让父亲平静的走完最后的日子。他把父亲换到舒适的病房，并且打电话召集了父亲昔日的朋友聚集到一起，甚至为父亲买来海洛因止痛。在相处过程中，父子俩的感情产生了微妙的变化。该片被誉为“生命的告别仪式”，以其平实朴质的影像和细腻入微的感情横扫各大影坛颁奖礼。2003年，法国戛纳电影节上获得了最佳剧本、最佳女演员大奖，并获金棕榈大奖提名；2004年，法国恺撒奖最佳导演、最佳影片、最佳剧本奖；2004年，奥斯卡最佳外语片奖以及最佳原创剧本提名。
回复 :北宋年间，花和尚鲁智深三拳打死了镇关西，逃至五台山文殊院落发为僧。却因控制不住杀念，被长老安排至东京汴梁大相国寺潜心修道。在这途中，他屡见世间不平之事却难以出手，因内心的对过往杀孽的忏悔而深受煎熬。终于，在目睹了官贼相护残杀无辜的可怕恶行之后，怀着报仇之愤的他拾起禅杖陷入疯魔.......
