To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Only his housemaid Lily knows that far from dying of gastroenteritis his wife was slowly poisoned by her husband - information she is happy to use to improve her position in the household and to make sure she stays close to Stephen. As his own prospects improve with a business partnership and a romance more of his own class, Stephen decides that Lily must go. Unfortunately for him, his first attempt gives her even more of a hold over him.
50年代-60年代初波兰电影学院派的经典作品之一,堪称与同时代意大利导演安东尼奥尼的《奇遇》相比,改编自Józef Hen在社会主义波兰时期被禁的小说。
In 1960 his second film NIKT NIE WOLA / NOBODY'S CALLING, based on a Jozef Hen novel that was never published in Poland, described the fate of Poles on the Eastern Front. Kutz used the film to explore new formal solutions, collaborating closely with cinematographer Jerzy Wojcik to reveal the psychological landscape of a pair of lovers who are strongly affected by wartime events. The camera recorded the couple's inner experiences, contrasting their muted intimacy against the surrounding scenery of a ruined town. The film did not win over critics at the time of its release. It was not until later that critics recognized Kutz's effort to experiment with aesthetics in a manner akin to that pursued by filmmakers of the new wave. NOBODY'S CALLING came to be compared with Michelangelo Antonioni's THE ADVENTURE, which was produced around the same time.
Ellen Foster(Betsy Drake 饰)在拜访姑妈的路上认识了建筑师Jeff Cohalan(Robert Young 饰),在与对方交往的过程中,她得知Jeff自从去年失去未婚妻后,性格就变得阴晴莫测,时而和颜悦色,时而冷漠阴郁,但最令她感到奇怪的是,他如同被厄运缠身般不断碰到各种坏事,先是身边种种心爱之物遭到破坏,接着工作上也不断出现差错,认为这些事情绝非偶然的Ellen在经过一系列调查后,发现基本每一件坏事其实都是人为所致,正在她好奇谁是凶手之时,Jeff的医生好友突然告诉她,Jeff极有可能已经患了妄想症,继续靠近Jeff她将面临生命危险。
艾伦(约瑟夫·科顿 Joseph Cotten 饰)是一名士兵,战友罗杰(Robert Sully 饰)请求艾伦帮自己给自己的女友维多利亚写信,在此过程中,艾伦无法自持的爱上了这个素未谋面的女孩。一场意外中,艾伦受伤进入医院疗养,而罗杰先他一步回到了家乡,顺利和维多利亚携手步入了婚姻的殿堂。艾伦虽然感到十分难过,但也只有献上祝福。
让艾伦没有想到的是,没过多久,他便收到了罗杰的死讯,于是,他来到了罗杰的家乡,想要找到维多利亚。然而,抵达了目的地的艾伦震惊的得知,维多利也竟然也已经去世了,而另一个名叫辛格尔顿(珍妮弗·琼斯 Jennifer Jones 饰)的女孩的身影浮出了水面。
因为找到一份新工作,西蒙·卡勒姆(杰森·贝特曼 Jason Bateman 饰)带着从事绘画设计工作的妻子萝宾(丽贝卡·豪尔 Rebecca Hall 饰)来到加州居住。西蒙的事业小有成就,夫妻俩和谐融洽,生活无忧无虑。在购物时,西蒙偶然重逢高中同学戈多(乔尔·埃哲顿 Joel Edgerton 饰),两人简单交谈后挥手告别。未过几天,戈多不请自来为夫妻带来了小礼物,当晚三个人共进晚餐,不过西蒙感觉并不十分愉快,显然他不太喜欢这个始终那么古怪的同学,相反萝宾倒有些欣赏这个热心的男子。在一次小的波折过后,西蒙终于决定张口要和完全不属于同一个世界的戈多绝交。
戈多面带失落,同时一种异样的表情在他脸上浮现……
This is a story about people in love with cinema, and a country going through its most difficult times. A group of friends, who met sometime ago in a movie theatre, get together to see one of them off to Belgrade. So their journey begins: from personal memories to the remembrance of their country, out of a small dark room to the mystery of Kiev's night. Their last stop - the farewell party where reality and cinema once again become a single whole.
Entente Cordiale intends to illustrate colonisation as a human phenomenon in an explicit manner as well as in a metaphoric sense without suggesting simplified accusations or political propositions. It will not be a historical film since colonisation as well as slave trade are still happening today - in a modified way, a more industrial, massive and more global fashion than a hundred years ago.