The American writer Joe arrives in Paris to research and write about Proust. He meets the Polish Karl and they become friends and costumers of brothels and restaurants. When the fifteen year-old Colette arrives in Paris, they both fall in love with her.
Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.
Very nice portrait of the thirties..., 23 April 2002
Author: Oreste (oreste.sl@sympatico.ca) from Montréal, Québec
Different from many other Chabrol movies that follow "Hitchock-like" patterns, _Jours tranquilles à Clichy_ relates the days a young American writer (Henry Miller) spent in the Gay Paris of the early thirties, with his polish-descent friend and their young Colette, a 14 years old-ish girl with whom they both fall in love. The story in itself doesn't send us from a surprising even to another but slowly lifts the curtain over the prostitution, pornography, libertinage and partying that seemed to oppose Paris so much to New York, in the eyes of Miller, searching for a change from the dull like he lead before. The story is a quest for Proust and his lost time, a quest for a new life, for thrills, for truth in forgetting oneself...
Regine, a psychologically fragile young woman, is hiding away in the city, far from the dark and forbidding countryside of her traumatic childhood. She's struggling to construct the loving family she never had, and to rise above the events of the past above all, the disastrous home birth of her brother Isaac, which led to her mother's insanity and Isaac's apparent death. But the city is tense and hostile, and contains its own threats. An abusive relationship with the controlling psychiatrist who's treating her mother is already blighting Regine's life when the brutal murder of her grandmother raises a crucial question is Isaac still alive, and looking for revenge against a family which he feels has rejected him Driven to heal the wounds of the past and to reunite her family by connecting with the brother she's never met, Regine must return to the site of her previous traumas and confront the true source of her family's guilt. It could make sense of her life - or throw it into ...
机器人安德鲁(罗宾·威廉斯 Robin Williams 饰)是尼尔家四代人的管家。原本尼尔一家只是当他一部机器来使用,但大家渐渐发现安德鲁不只是一个家务机器这么简单,他在日常还会和他们一起欢笑,懂得人类的习俗,体会人类的情感。 安德鲁在尼尔家的女儿很小的时候就喜欢上她了,但由于他没有安装感觉模块,他任由她嫁给了一个错误的人。由于没有感觉,安德鲁可以在海边独自一人盖一栋房子生活。直到某天,他遇上了机械专家、科学狂人,为他安装上了感觉模块。 至此,安德鲁才体会到什么是吃醋、什么是恋爱。经过一番努力,安德鲁终于完全融入了人类社会。最终,他和自己相爱的人得以长厢厮守,并在垂垂老矣时幸福死去……
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