尤优（葛优饰）接到个美差，久爱爱拍一部宣传记录片记录好莱坞大腕导演泰勒（唐纳德•萨瑟兰饰）在中国拍摄影片的工作过程。一开始工作顺利，久爱爱但随着制片人托尼（保罗•莫索尔斯基饰）的到来，事情起了变化。闲下来的尤优和泰勒、泰勒的助手露茜（关之琳饰）到寺庙游览，三人相处得非常愉快。不料几天后泰勒因心脏病发作，生命垂危，他希望尤优能为自己操办个喜丧葬礼，尤优揽下活儿。尤优找到老同学王小柱（英达饰），泰勒将死对王来说是一个难得商机，对托尼来说也是如此，惟有尤优和露茜是怀着朴实感情面对此事。王小柱开始出谋献策，拉了好多赞助，众多商家不惜花大钱在葬礼上做广告。局面变得无法收拾，却不料，在葬礼的背后另有玄机。
安胜浩
回复 :Siddartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee) is forced to discontinue his medical studies due to unexpected and brutal death of his father. He has to now find a job in stead. In one job interview, he is asked to name the most significant world event in the last ten years. His reply is 'the plain human courage shown by the people of Vietnam', instead of the expected - man landing on moon. The interviewer asks is he is a communist. Needles to say that he does not get the job.He reaches a coffee shop where he is offered to work for the communist party. When he does not show any interest the party leader tells him about an opening for a medical representative. To escape from the heat and have a snooze, he goes in to a cinema. As a government propaganda newsreel is being shown before the feature, a bomb explodes in the cinema hall. In the stampede that follows, Siddartha, breaks his watch. He goes to a watchmaker but he cannot afford the repairs.Waiting to cross the road, he notices a sexy girl. He drifts back to his days as a medical student in a flashback. The professor is explaining anatomy of female breast. Many flashbacks and dreams occur to Siddartha through the film.On his way to hostel, he has an encounter with some hippies. Along with an ex-classmate, he goes out to see a porn film but to their disappointment, the film turns out to be not-so-pornographic.In such constant wandering in a Calcutta, disintegrated relationships with his sister and a Naxalite (militant communist) brother, his friendship with Keya is only thing that keeps him sane.Keya is a simple girl. They enjoy each other's company but they cannot make any commitment to each other due to the circumstances.After yet another attempt at a job interview, Siddartha leaves the big city to take a modest job of a salesman in a far off small town. He writes to Keya that he still cherishes their relationship. And that he has heard that bird call again but this time it is for real, and not his mind. After completing the letter, he comes out to the balcony of his modest room. The bird calls again. He also hears the sombre chants of a funeral procession. As he turns to the camera, the picture is frozen.This is the first film of the Calcutta Trilogy. The other two were and Seemabaddha (Company Limited, 1971) and Jana Aranya (The Middle Man, 1975). All the three films study the effect the big city of Calcutta has on the educated youth and the price it extracts from them.The seventies were a difficult period for India and West Bengal. The Corruption was rampant; the Naxalite movement had created havoc in Calcutta. In fact, they had turned parts of Calcutta into 'liberated zones'. By the time the Naxalite movement died down, in 1975, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (then, Prime Minister of India) suppressed the fundamental rights and declared "Emergency" for her own political survival. Her son, Sanjay Gandhi became a dictator of sorts without any official designation. The opposition leaders were thrown into prisons.About his social responsibilities as a filmmaker, in an interview with Cineaste magazine, Ray commented, "You can see my attitude in The Adversary where you have two brothers. The younger brother is a Naxalite. There is no doubt that the elder brother admires the younger brother for his bravery and convictions. The film is not ambiguous about that. As a filmmaker, however, I was more interested in the elder brother because he is the vacillating character. As a psychological entity, as a human being with doubts, he is a more interesting character to me. The younger brother has already identified himself with a cause. That makes him part of a total attitude and makes him unimportant. The Naxalite movement takes over. He, as a person, becomes insignificant."In a letter to Seton in 1970, Ray wrote that Pratidwandi was the most provocative film he had made till then. The film is said to have evoked extreme reactions. "People either loved the film or hated it", Dhritiman Chatterjee told Andrew Robinson, Ray's biographer.
薛岳
回复 :HBO纪录片，来自叙利亚的记录影像太震撼，一部以叙利亚普通民众视角讲述叙利亚内战的起因、进程、以及对和平的期许。也许会有人认为这部纪录片是站在西方视角拍摄的，内战持续了7年之久仍未平息，做为旁观者无论是倾向于哪一方，有一点是毋庸置疑的，叙利亚早已沦为大国之间相互角力的试验场，各种极端宗教组织趁机兴风作浪，叙利亚民众犹如在炼狱中煎熬，还不知到底捱到何时才见曙光...
李民基
回复 :希腊导演安哲罗普洛斯的第一部故事长片拍摄于1970年，片名为《重建》。影片叙述的是希腊一个“慢慢衰落下去的”农庄中所发生的杀人与侦破杀人案的故事：这个村里的男人大都去德国当了劳工，移民木可斯塔回乡探亲，被他的妻子和她的情夫谋杀了，木可的亲友报警之后，初审法官“重建”案发现场，一些新闻记者从雅典专程赶到，当凶案破译时，有一个名叫安哲罗普洛斯的导演正在筹拍一部关于此案的电影。
