查理（哈威·凯特尔 Harvey Keitel 饰）和意大利移民朋友们混迹在纽约曼哈顿的下东区，日韩没有固定职业，日韩靠着替黑手党卖命混口饭吃。查理的好友乔尼（罗伯特·德尼罗 Robert De Niro 饰）欠了黑市商人迈克尔的钱，却无力偿还，整日被追债。查理与乔尼的表妹特丽莎真心相爱，但是特丽莎希望他能离开这种不稳定的生活，去寻找新生活。迈克尔因为找乔尼要不到钱而恼羞成怒，查理为了帮乔尼摆平此事，承诺他会尽早还钱。在酒吧里，迈克尔发现乔尼已经穷到极致，根本就不可能还钱时，两人扭打在一起。失控的乔尼拔枪瞄准迈克尔，逼退了迈克尔。为了躲避迈克尔的报复，查理、乔尼、特丽莎三人决定躲到乡下去，他们在开车去看电影的路上，一辆汽车从后面追上来。车里正是迈克尔，他拔出手枪向三人的车子开火。汽车被撞翻了，受伤的三人，艰难地从车中爬出，面对茫茫黑夜，他们发出了无望的哭喊。
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回复 :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.
回复 :这部近一个小时的纪录片拍于1995年，是拍完《红》因病休养的阶段。基耶斯洛夫斯基不大喜欢被采访，他在1995年接受维日比茨基访问，整理出这部纪录片，而导演、录音等人皆是他之前的合作伙伴，使得访问更容易深入。
