威廉赫特(William Hurt)大显绅士矜持和中年沧桑的近年佳作。这次赫特饰演胸怀理想的大厨戴夫，色视在人迹罕见的纽芬兰悬崖上开了家高级法国餐厅，色视初时自然门可罗雀，好在蛊惑邻居出谋献策，谣传此区出现珍贵海鸟，刹时间观鸟者蜂涌而来，戴夫的餐厅亦成为潮流热点。谁知蛊惑邻居是福星，也是祸星，不但随他来餐厅打工的姨仔（《私人红灯区》的茉莉·柏嘉Molly Parker饰）把戴夫推进恋爱迷雾，他秘藏的白色粉末更招来各路英雄对餐厅虎视眈眈......导演史托拉根那逊获誉为加拿大电影的新希望，把一部黑色喜剧拍得风趣脱俗、佳句连篇。三主角一冷一热一娇，化学作用强，演绎男性友谊和忘年奇恋亦是情味浓郁。
回复 :本片根据真实事件改编。描述一对夫妇攀登雪山却遭遇险境……
回复 :The Doll is an adaptation of the novel, The Doll (novel) by Bolesław Prus, which is regarded by many as one of the finest Polish novels ever written and, along with Pharaoh (novel), made Bolesław Prus a potential candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. The influence of Émile Zola is evident, and some have compared the novel to Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; both were Prus's contemporaries. The movie, however, may be more compared to Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, (The Red and the Black).The Doll constitutes a panorama of life in Warsaw between 1878 and 1879, and at the same time is a subtle story of three generations of Polish idealists, their psychological complications, their involvement in the history of the nineteenth century, social dramas, moral problems and the experience of tragic existence. At the same time this story describes the disintegration of social relationships and the growing separation of a society whose aristocratic elite spreads the models of vanity and idleness. In the bad air of a backward country, anti-Semitic ideas are born, valuable individuals meet obstacles on their way, and scoundrels are successful.This poetic love story follows a nouveau riche merchant, Stanislaw Wokulski, through a series of trials and tribulations occasioned by his obsessive passion for an aristocratic beauty, Izabela Lecka, played by the famous Polish actress, Beata Tyszkiewicz.Plot:As a descendant of an impoverished Polish noble family, young Wokulski is forced to work as a waiter at Hopfer's, a Warsaw restaurant, while dreaming of a life in science. After taking part in the failed 1863 Uprising against Tsarist Russia, he is sentenced to exile in Siberia. On eventual return to Warsaw, he becomes a salesman at Mincel's haberdashery. Marrying the late owner's widow (who eventually dies), he comes into money and uses it to set up a partnership with a Russian merchant he had met while in exile. The two merchants go to Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, and Wokulski makes a fortune supplying the Russian Army. The enterprising Wokulski now proves a romantic at heart, falling in love with Izabela, daughter of the vacuous, bankrupt aristocrat, Tomasz Łęcki. In his quest to win Izabela, Wokulski begins frequenting theatres and aristocratic salons; and to help her financially distressed father, founds a company and sets the aristocrats up as shareholders in his business.The indolence of these aristocrats, who secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to Izabela's impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection. In the end she consents to accept him, but without true devotion or love.(wikipedia)
回复 :美国的小众独立电影，讲述了便士多店小店员但丁（布莱恩·奥哈罗兰 Brian O'Halloran 饰）郁闷抓狂的一天。过了睡眠质量极差的一晚后，但丁大清早被老板叫去加班。这只是倒霉的一天的起始，接下来，还有更多麻烦事情接踵而至，开店门、喷标语、遇见唠叨的反吸烟人士阻挠店面生意。一个头两个大的但丁，还要和前来店铺的女朋友维罗尼卡（玛丽莲·吉格洛尔蒂 Marilyn Ghigliotti饰）交流性生活经验。结果落得个不欢而散，因为女朋友拥有过的性伴侣数目实在令但丁叹为观止。麻烦事还是一桩接一桩，这时前女友的到来令但丁的心狠狠振作了一下。他的艳遇到了，似乎终于可以扫走霉运。可是，卫生间内的“奇遇”，又摧毁了这件美好的事情。
