克里斯(约瑟夫·高登·莱维特 Joseph Gordon-Levitt饰)曾经是一个耀眼的男生:身为冰球明星,有着优越的家境,漂亮的女友,人生如平坦的大道一样畅顺。一场车祸却摧毁了一切,他患上了短暂失忆,每天都在无法控制的状态中度过,就连车匙放在哪里之类的小问题,克里斯也无法有把握地记起。如今他成了银行的守门人,身边唯一的朋友就是盲人路易斯(杰夫·丹尼尔斯 Jeff Daniels饰),他用快乐的人生观指点着克里斯该如何应对生活。 有人想方设法接近克里斯,那就是加里(马修·古迪 Matthew Goode饰)。加里对克里斯的际遇十分关心,为他介绍女朋友,把他恢复以往生活的内心欲望唤醒,更重要的目标,是和他合谋参与银行劫案。 克里斯不但面对着失忆的苦恼,如今还要应付这个棘手的计划,把人生的掌握权夺回自己手中。
Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport both in their professional and daily lives between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps. The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial. -Steve Grayson my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty. - Jonathan Rosenbaum
It’s never too late to make a change in your life. Attilio, Giorgetto, and the “Professore,” three retired men from Rome, are tired of their daily struggle; they dream of escaping to someplace exotic. They begin to save up the necessary money but it’s hard to break their habits. Di Gregorio continues his story of harmlessly eccentric men. With him, Giorgio Colangeli and Ennio Fantastichini in his last, very dynamic performance.