简介：影片主角是一个78岁的英国著名作家，他身患重病却仍然酗酒成性，口不择言。夜晚不时陷于噩梦的缠绕中，令他想入非非，一边琢磨着他最后一部作品的情节构思，一边回忆着他的往事。于是，噩梦、他的想象加上往事的回忆相互混淆在一起，共同构成了他作品的故事框架。　　影片将文学创作的过程跟幻想、愤怒等融为一体，制造了一个精致的弗洛伊德哑谜。这是雷奈的第一部用英语拍摄的影片。剧本比较拗口罗嗦，有较重的文学味，影片被认为是雷奈的杰作，博加德的演出尤为精湛，但一般观众可能会觉得单调乏味。　　Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, through flashbacks, how spiteful, conniving and treacherous his family is. But is this how they really are or is it his own vindictive slant on things

简介：The last time Britain was a major force in world cinema was in the 1960s; a documentary of a few years back on the subject was entitled 'Hollywood UK'. This was the era of the Kitchen Sink, social realism, angry young men; above all, the theatrical. And yet, ironically, the best British films of the decade were made by two Americans, Richard Lester and Joseph Losey, who largely...

简介：影片讲述在1933年德国纳粹盛行时期一个钢铁家族的衰落和消失，一个家庭里充满仇恨和杀机，老主管被杀，继而各个家庭成员为了夺得这份财产，进行了你死我活的较量……该片是一部以一个家族来透视一个民族的磅礴史诗。维斯康提最成熟，气势最恢弘的一部作品。导演借用一个黑暗的时代背景，描述了家族成员之间的勾心斗角、阴谋残杀、虚伪狡诈、争权夺利，而且用大量篇幅描写纳粹褐衫党徒的纵欲狂欢，以及黑衫党与褐衫党之间的矛盾和屠杀。 　　内容还涉及了母子乱伦、杀父等道德悲剧。维斯康提将权力和欲望使人性沉沦、泯灭和异化的残酷事实，提升到希腊悲剧式的高度，并暗喻法西斯妄图称霸世界的权欲正是导致其灭绝人性的根本缘由。演员的演出极为出色，特别是博加德的完美表演令人叫绝。