加拿大新锐导演罗伯特·布德里奥和 《爱在黎明破晓时》男星伊桑·霍克携手合作的《生为蓝调》,灵案跳脱传统传记电影的钻研考究,灵案在虚实互映的构组拼贴中,重现爵士乐手查特·贝克充满传奇色彩的戏剧一生。
加拿大新锐导演罗伯特·布德里奥和 《爱在黎明破晓时》男星伊桑·霍克携手合作的《生为蓝调》,灵案跳脱传统传记电影的钻研考究,灵案在虚实互映的构组拼贴中,重现爵士乐手查特·贝克充满传奇色彩的戏剧一生。
回复 :拍摄于巴黎唐人街和泰国,此影片中综合了丰富的文化层面。MANU是个年轻的泰国拳击冠军。他的父母去世后,他的哥哥RAPH不得不为了家族生意放弃拳击,使得MANU有机会去发展他自己的拳击生涯。但当MANU在一次不法击战中被RAPH的新恋人杀死后,退出拳击的RAPH深限在爱和恨的挣扎中
回复 :丹尼斯(西蒙·佩吉 饰)当年因害怕成立家庭,并觉得自己会毁掉女友比莉(桑迪·牛顿 饰)的一生,结婚当天丢下了已怀孕的女友逃走了。5年后,丹尼斯才发现自己原来一直是爱着比莉的。就算他们会因为儿子的关系经常见面,可是比莉已经与会计师威特(汉克·阿扎利亚 饰)约会,她早已因丹尼斯当年的行为而死心。纵使丹尼斯对于威特充满了敌意,可是自己也明白他根本比不上帅气成功的威特。胖胖的丹尼斯不过是个保安而已,他微薄的工资无法付得起房租,房东的女儿把他赶到了大街上去。彷徨无助的丹尼斯感到无地自容,他不知如何面对儿子与比莉,还有情敌威特。可是他一想到要与比莉重新在一起,他毅然宣称要参见马拉松比赛,在马拉松赛场上,还是情感的赛场上,丹尼斯都誓要胜过威特……
回复 :“Sangen Om Den Eldröda Blomman” ( “Song Of The Scarlet Flower” ) was a recent and remarkable silent surprise for this Herr Von; the oeuvre is an excellent Herr Stiller silent film that this German count watched in a newly restored and tinted copy. It combines the well-known aesthetics, technical improvements and artistic merits for which the Nordic director was known and praised since those early silent times till today. The film tells of the merry and carefree love life of young Olof ( Herr Lars Hanson ) a woodsman who during his search for true love, seduces many frauleins ( just like this German aristocrat… well, not exactly because the purpose of this Herr Von’s seduction of rich fräulein heiresses are their great fortunes… ). He will suffer disappointment and deception, all those problems that turn up in any loving relationship. Finally he will find responsibility and maturity, learning during his particular quest that his actions always have consequences in different degrees to the people around him. This Herr Von can describe “Sangen Om…” as a kind of coming of age film, the special introspective growth toward maturity of a free and easy youngster. As this German count said before, the film displays Stiller’s characteristic artistic virtues. ; in the first part of the film, we can see elements of comedy, not exactly like the comedy of intrigues in other Stiller films, but humor of a more cheerful sort, highlighting the self-involvement of our hero. Olof ‘s frivolous flirtations with the different girls eventually turn romantic and then turn into drama. There is conflict in the troubled relationship between Olof and his father and later with the father of his beloved. The beautiful and wild natural landscapes of Norrland and northern Sweden lend the tale a certain power and is characteristic of Herr Stiller’s other silents where Nature emerges as an important character in the story. This is strongly reflected throughout the film but especially during the frantic scene wherein Olof descends into the troubled waters of a river, a beautiful metaphor for the hardships that our hero has to endure until he finds himself. “Sangen Om Den Eldröda Blomman” is an excellent, beautiful film, a solid, technically perfect and intricate production of 1919 that demonstrates once again the importance of Herr Stiller for silent film history.