1900年，欧美科学的发展还未能遮盖魔术的神秘感，欧美维也纳的人们对艾森海姆（爱德华·诺顿 Edward Norto饰）的魔术更是达到了痴迷的状态。这个神奇的魔术师总是能把现实和虚幻的东西混为一体，让人坠入云里雾里，怀疑他是否真的具有超能力。而台下的乌尔侦探，更是想从艾森海姆每一场的表演里看出幕后的真相。一天，一位上台接受挑战的女子令艾森海姆大为震惊——她就是自己往日的恋人苏菲（杰西卡·贝尔 Jessica Biel 饰）。他们曾经因为等级门户之故被迫分开，而如今，苏菲将成为王储的妻子。尽管这样，二人还是旧情复炽，无法自拔。当苏菲打算放弃一切跟爱森海姆私奔时，悲剧却发生了,她离奇死去，所有证据都表明凶手就是由爱生恨的王储。真相似乎已经大白，但是魔术师的世界亦真亦幻，实情也随之扑朔迷离。
蔡晓恩
回复 :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.
佟大为
回复 :故事发生在1966年，文化大革命正如火如荼地进行着，卢丹枫（徐枫 饰）和李红钢（王尔利 饰）本是感情十分要好的情侣，却分别加入了对立的“红旗派”和“井冈山派”，成为了水火不容的阶级敌人。某日，李红钢被俘，本着昔日的情分，卢丹枫悄悄将他放走。然而，重获自由的李红钢立刻就开始着手布置起了正对“井冈山派”的袭击行动，然而，在他的内心里，依然保留着对于卢丹枫的感情。一场激烈的斗争中，卢丹枫丧失了理智向李红钢开了枪，尽管身负重伤，李红钢一派最终还是获取了胜利。之后，卢丹枫和李红钢终于决定面对面谈一谈，但等待他们的只能是悲剧。
蔡一杰
回复 :艾莉森·托尔曼和雷·圣蒂亚戈饰演一对夫妻，妻子很爱鲍伊，在2016年听到他的死讯，很伤心。而丈夫还想借此讲笑话，妻子怒了，称不能忍受对方长期的不合时宜、不顾自己心情的作风。此时，丈夫突然被吸进了空间裂缝，穿越到了24年后，见到了2040年的自己和妻子，在这个“怪异”的交错现实中，他逐渐更理解了爱、人情、生命……
