花街时代
越战时期,奔赴战场的美国大兵途径香港时,会在湾仔停留,这让湾仔自1950年代末的数年间,充斥靠他们过日子的纹身师傅、小要饭、拿着照片找爸爸的“杂种”、阿飞及实为妓女的Bar女郎,形成特有的风情。  Bar坊妈咪回乡找人做Bar女,家境贫寒、相貌不俗、个性倔强的赖水尾(夏文汐)和几个同乡姐妹从大澳渔村来到湾仔,开始卖肉生涯。起初,渔家女受到其他Bar女的嘲笑,但经过经验丰富的小伶玉(于倩)的一番调教,她们很快不输她人,易名水美丽的赖水尾更是出尽风头。风度翩翩却又年少轻狂的“杂种”Jimmy(黄秋生)幼年丧母,小伶玉将他养大后视作私有财产,不过Jimmy对她并无爱情,他心里只有不知身在何方的父亲。为Jimmy着迷的不止小伶玉一人,诸多Bar女只怪小伶玉将他看得太紧,他又不给她们揩油的机会。水美丽亦钟情于他。  某次Jimmy被阿飞堵截,水美丽机智将他相救,又相告有心听来的他父亲的名字,两人瞒着小伶玉开始恋爱。后来水美丽为了他与小伶玉撕破脸,主动离开Bar坊,而找到父亲的他早忘记当初誓言,拍拍屁股去了美国。一家不要家家不要的行规令水美丽成为街头妓女,但小伶玉这个机会亦不给她,无奈之下她去了麻油地,几年挣扎,境况越来越糟。亏得性情相投的黑帮大姐大王英(叶德娴)相助,水美丽东山再起,短短几年更将生意做到了尖沙咀。  随着越战的结束,湾仔渐成荒凉地,小伶玉亦变作风中残烛。水美丽念旧恩将她探望时,Jimmy恰好回港。听闻他是回港找妻,旁人都以为水美丽会与他再续前缘,对他早已死心的水美丽心底亦再泛涟漪,不料他早变作世俗之人,更将两人的感情忘得一干二净。其后水美丽有心将精力全部放在生意上,无奈时代风云不是她及待她若同性爱侣的王英所能把握。
芳心封鎖
The issue of War widow representation in Israeli cinema is one of the most complex for the local industry for it seems to be unique and with a very local and specific iconography.  The war Widow is a difficult character to digest. Because this is an especially painful topic in Israel, its mode of representation is almost always problematic.  Gila Almagor in Tofano's siege is one of the first characters of the modern war widows to appear on Israeli cinema screens.  The human and social complexity of the status of widows was not represented adequately and personally until her complex and fine appearance in this film.  It was mostly Preceded by cliches of heroic women who have sacrificed for the nation with characters to which it was very difficult to get attached, nor to their personal grief.  Siege was directed by an unknown Italian director of that period. Although Gilberto Tofano was brought as a professional director on the wings of inspiration made by the French New Wave of those years, he managed to turn out a very exciting work which has caught the Israeli warmth and sense of social siege which surrounds the Israeli widows, including the great expectations from them and the social stigmas.  Tofano wrapped his leading lady with lots of warmth and gave a place of honor to Almagor's impressive presence in the film.  This is without a doubt one of Almagor's best and most accurate performances. The restraint in her performance plus the shooting and expressive use of angles by Tofano and his soft European touch which was far off from the aggressive local product managed to produce a sense of documenting an authentic tragedy with a tangible personal touch that minimized the national dimension. The result stands the test of time proudly several decades after its creation.
苏醒的亚当
该片又名《亚当复活》,根据1969年以色列著名畅销小说家尤拉里·卡纽克(Yoram Kaniuk)的作品改编,讲述了德裔以色列小丑演员亚当·斯坦的故事,他被迫在纳粹集中营内为在押犯们表演取乐,最后得以逃过生死劫只是因为能够为进入毒气室的囚犯们拉拉小提琴曲。杰夫·古德布鲁姆(Jeff Goldblum)在片中饰演亚当,威廉·达福则出演集中营指挥官,此人将亚当象条狗一样尽尽羞辱之能事。  幕后制作  这是德国和以色列电影届的首次合作,出演亚当的杰夫·高布伦表示:“这是他所扮演的最难的一个角色。”该片导演保罗·施拉德曾以担任《出租车司机》的编剧而名声大噪,制片商则是以色列的埃胡德·布雷伯格(Ehud Bleiberg)公司和德国的维尔纳·维尔辛(Werner Wirsing)公司,这部主题悲惨的影片堪与罗伯托·贝尼尼的奥斯卡获奖电影——黑色喜剧片《美丽人生》相媲美。  一名德国评论家撰文称,《苏醒的亚当》“会在两种风格中艰难取得平衡”——因为如果风格过于活泼幽默,就有嘲笑大屠杀幸存者之嫌;如果风格拍得过于严肃沉闷,又不能完全反映原著中的人物个性。  出演该片的还有德国顶尖演员莫里兹·布雷布特鲁(Moritz Bleibtreu)和维罗尼卡·费里斯(Veronica Ferres),以及以色列演员阿耶莱特·祖里尔(Ayelet Zurer),后者曾出演过斯蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格的《慕尼黑》。  《苏醒的亚当》一片中大多数场景取自位于以色列内盖夫沙漠中的大屠杀幸存者收容所,斯坦在拼命寻找最后一名家族幸存者,后被送来这里治疗他所谓的“神经失常”。为了更好地诠释角色,杰夫·高布伦数度造访以色列,并以大屠杀幸存者们进行沟通交流,他还前往柏林体验生活,并专门恶补小提琴课以便更好地展示片中人物的个性。  原著小说当年在以色列出版时,销量一败涂地,作者、现年77岁的卡纽克解释说:“因为那个时候没有以色列人再愿意听关于受害者的故事了。”影片投资700万英镑,在海法、特拉维夫、罗马尼亚和德国的一些地方取景拍摄。
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