本片由几个超现实的小故事串联而成。公园里，日韩一个神秘男子塞给一个中产阶级家庭的女孩几张图片，日韩女孩父母对这些帕特农神庙、凯旋门等古建筑的图片大惊失色。丈夫晚上被幻觉困扰求助医生，恰巧女护士请假离去，在回家的路上，女护士偶遇受虐狂帽商、赌博的神父等人。一位教授搭护士的车来到警局授课，却总被打断，他最后讲了一段赴宴的经历，几个朋友在马桶上闲聊，而吃饭却在厕所一样的单间里。一名罹患癌症的男人被告知女儿失踪，虽然女儿就在身边，但一群人仍然四处寻找。一名枪手在高层建筑里随意射杀路人，被判处死刑，但看起来却像是当庭释放。警察局长接到了死去的妹妹电话，他前往墓地查看，却发现自己的位置已经被别人代替……本片获1975年意大利电影新闻记者协会银兔奖。
回复 :落寞的青年亚历克斯（德尼·拉旺 Denis Lavant 饰）独自徘徊巴黎街头，他的女友移情别恋，不久又要去服兵役，钟爱的电影事业前景模糊。偶然机缘，亚历克斯进入一个私人聚会，并结识了美丽的女孩蜜蕊拉（蜜蕊拉·皮雷 Mireille Perrier 饰）。蜜蕊拉此前与男友伯纳情深意笃，为了爱情她甘愿奉献一切，这却让对方无法承受如此炽烈的感情，只能选择逃避。相同的境遇让他们走到一起，互诉各自的情感经历，两人的心由此更加贴近。亚历克斯和蜜蕊拉相互依偎，空气中弥漫着悲伤无望的气味……本片为莱奥·卡拉克斯（Leos Carax）导演处女作，并荣获1984年戛纳电影节青年奖。
回复 :A bit of color for once, all the better to see the red flags with, not to mention the obvious aerial file footage of Warsaw. The story concerns Jozef Malesa, the mason or bricklayer of the title. He was once the darling of the party, the son of two old party activists, a worker of heroic reputation, his own commitment to The Movement unquestioned. He was chosen to be destined for great things, specially educated and pushed forward to positions of responsibility in the Party. Eventually he decides, because of the ethical pressures which he feels from the obstructionism of the bureaucracy from above, he asks to return to be a simple bricklayer. He is disturbed with the way the Party deals with people, especially their lack of direct contact. He thinks workers know better than the leadership many times but that's not the way power flows. He is uncomfortable with the compromises to his idealism. He remains committed to social justice and joins his friends for the May Day rally where his comfort and confidence in his place in society cause him to defer to no man, certainly no rat faced men in overcoats with red armbands. His great pleasure in life moreover is laying brick. He finds the work satisfying and fulfilling which is why he was such an obviously superior worker in the first place.
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回复 :史蒂文·泰勒（迈克尔·道格拉斯 Michael Douglas 饰）身为一位叱咤华尔街的百万富豪，金钱和地位却始终无法令他满足，他渴望的是妻子艾米丽（格温妮斯·帕特洛 Gwyneth Paltrow 饰）的忠贞爱情，但却从来吝于表达自己对她的爱。美貌与才情兼备的艾米丽并不想成为丈夫身边的一只花瓶，工作之余她偶然结识了才华横溢的穷画家戴维·肖（维果·莫腾森 Viggo Mortensen 饰），从他那里尝到了丈夫不曾给过的爱恋激情。然而，频繁的幽会最终还是被泰勒察觉，妒火中烧加之妻子身后巨额保险金的诱惑，使泰勒渐渐萌生了杀妻之念，他精心策划了一起超完美谋杀案，然而再完美的计划也赶不上变化，一场猫鼠游戏才刚刚开始……本片是翻拍自悬疑片大师希区柯克1954年的经典作品《完美的谋杀案》。
