影片参加了2010年的圣丹斯电影节，免费发行版权以480万美元的价格被焦点影业买走，免费成为了那届圣丹斯上最值钱的电影。妮可（安妮特·贝宁 Annette Bening 饰）和朱尔斯（朱丽安·摩尔Julianne Moore 饰）是一对相伴很久的同性伴侣。并有2个孩子：马上要18岁的乔妮（米娅·华希科沃斯卡 Mia Wasikowska 饰）和15岁的莱塞（乔什·哈切森 Josh Hutcherson 饰）。妮可的医生职业很有压力常常忽视了朱尔斯日子还算太平的过着，直到有一天，莱塞向姐姐建议，他想和那个捐出自己精子的男人见一面。因为姐姐已经到了18岁，她有权利向家里提出这个要求。妮可和和朱尔斯同意了姐弟俩的愿望，他们见到了在生物学上的父亲保罗（马克·鲁弗洛 Mark Ruffalo 饰）。可是见面之后会发生什么呢？这个平静而美满的家庭会因此出现裂缝么？
林智文
回复 :1970年代，山西某地。春节将至，妻子突然撒手人寰，把四个幼小的孩子留给了任建国（孙敏 饰），他不得已把先天患足疾的幼子送到福利院。福利院收留了孩子并取名党生53（廉冠 饰），后来党生53被骆驼房村耿二女（曹翠芬 饰）收养，并省吃俭用为渐渐长大的孩子治脚疾。可大夫说要治愈党生53的病要去北京大医院，治疗费要几千元，这可难煞了耿二女。她听云游道士（王哲 饰）的偏方为党生53治病，几个月下来自己也累病了。福利院大花（王玉芝 饰）闻讯，组织社会募捐帮助二女。在大同，党生53遭饭店老板儿子的欺负，恰巧老板正是当年遗弃儿子的任建国，当他发现受欺负的正是自己的儿子后，良心受到震颠。到达北京后，大夫说党生53的病治愈不了，二女闻言感觉天塌了一般......
回复 :这部电影将写实与科幻合而为一。一种传染性性疾病STBO正在国内蔓延，它通过没有感情的性活动传播。小偷马克和汉斯欠一个美国女人一笔钱，她限他们两个星期还。他们打算去偷一种专治类似艾滋病的药剂，然后高价转卖。于是他们雇来了亚力克斯，一个正在跟16岁女友丽莎分手的青年。但在计划实施之前，他迷恋上了马克的情妇安娜。丽莎却并没有死心，在他们动手那天她来到了巴黎，使得事情更加复杂化……当然，这是个悲剧。Love that burns fast but lasts forever.这是导演Leos Carax继《男孩遇见女孩》后的第二部作品，继续他对青春和孤独等题材的关注，也就是在此片的五年之后诞生了影史经典之作——《新桥恋人》。
伍思凯
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
