Jean Vigo拍的Taris游泳教学片

　　一部深入世界上伟大博物馆之一——伦敦的国家美术馆的纪录片。

　　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。

　　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.

米歇尔（朱丽叶·比诺什饰）是个富家女，心里却并不幸福。她失恋，患上眼疾，情绪低落之下决定到外面的世界去流浪。她喜欢画画，在街头遇到断了腿的埃里克斯（德尼·拉旺饰），画下了他抽搐的脸。埃里克斯是个一无所有的流浪汉，却爱上了米歇尔。两人开始了热恋，流浪中互相取暖互相疗伤。米歇尔的视力慢慢模糊，她的心愿是在失明前看看博物馆的画。满街都贴着米歇尔家人的寻人启事，埃里克斯感到米歇尔即将离他而去，悲伤不已。他用枪打碎自己的手指以宣泄痛苦，疯狂的烧掉寻人通知，却没有留得住一段即将幻灭的感情。然而，米歇尔最后还是提出分手，重新回到她原来生活的世界。后来米歇尔终于在飘雪的圣诞夜跟埃里克斯在烟花灿烂的塞纳河上重逢。

影片以第一次世界大战为背景，讲述三名法国俘虏在德国集中营越狱的故事。三名法国飞行员在一次任务执行中被德军击落，波迪奥、迈克和罗森塔尔三人被带到战俘集中营。波迪奥与德军监狱长罗芬斯坦都是贵族出身，有着共同的政治见解，二人在狱中成为朋友。三人随后发现狱友正进行越狱计划，他们挖出一条逃跑的通道。迈克和罗森塔尔也加入了挖掘行动。最后他们集体越狱，德军全力追捕，在逃亡中，波迪奥被罗芬斯坦击倒，两名法国俘虏迈克和罗森塔尔逃到一个德国农妇家中，在她的帮助下，二人经过种种波折逃到瑞士。本片是最早的越狱片之一，被评为最伟大的“越狱电影”之一，同时也是导演让·雷诺阿的反战杰作。

　　《望夫石》（La Pierre de l'attente，1991），陳英雄一部21分鐘的短片，曾經獲得1992年里爾國際電影節（Lille International Short and Documentary Film Festival）評審團大獎