四重)奏

简介

　　It _(=has been s\.a;_ $id th:/at most great tw -ent[.ieth ;+centur%
+y nove ls include scenes  in a +hotel, a s*y mptom of the vast;)$ uprooting th_at`]$ ha+]s occ /urred =;_in the la_-^(st century: ;James I#)v)/,ory begin=$s Qu%ar]tet ;wit
.h a montage( %
 of* the hotels- of Montp-_ar#$nasse, a quiet prelu,de/% before +!-]our i*ntro!$duction to th/@e violentl/y lost `souls wh_o inha^bit them.$]　　Adapted from% the ]1928 auto\(=bi.:ogr$a:/+( phi `cal n-=ovel by Jea%/)n Rhys, Qua rtet%
is the story of a lov?_e -quadr an]gle between a complicated young We.?st Indian?-(, woman nam%ed Marya` (/#:played by Is\abell!@e Ad jani), ! her! h@=usband Stef_an (-$?Anthony Higgi,ns) /, a$ manipulat$ive?.+_ Eng#^lish art pat@^^r@
on; nam+ ed Heidler (Alan Bates), and +%his)\$ , painter wif?e Lois (Maggie)] Smit@
@h):(. The film is set in the Golden Ag[:e o= %f Paris, Hemin #g*(way's "mov[e+_
-able
 ;f[]]east" of cafe culture and ex:tr\` avagant nightlif e, glitter$ and % litera;ti: yet un;derneath is the , ;outline[ ?[of something sinister beneath the _p#_,olis ?)?hed b]][!rass
es and`) br?`asseries.　　W:h
en M?.^a\@rya's husband is pu `t in a /( Paris prison on charges of; selling stol\/en a. rt wo;,rks];[, she is le#`ft 
).indigent and is taken in by^= Heidler and h/]i
s wife: the p=@r:$ed ]a.?tory **[Engl %ishman (whose(^ c`^haracter/)= Rh,ys bases on t,@he: no^:velis,^t ;%?Ford^ Mado_[x Ford) is q -uick to t[`?ake advantage of the new living arrang *eme$_=nt, and Mar (ya fin @#ds herself*( in a st rangl- e ho+^ld between husband and wife! /. Lovers:
 .! alterna @!te= ly grav!:it;@#ate*
+ toward and=$ are =rep,_elled (-by each`] oth,er, now
_%_pro_fessing;[ their love, now con$fessing. the=/ir brutal i[+ndifference +%^-- all t\.[he * while keeping up appearances.
The film e$ xplore;s the vas(
t terri?$)tory?
 be)[(tween th.e &+=\/q#?uotni:-@ce" and t;he*=] " good,&quo.t :between$ outward refi\nement
?and . inne!r d,-^ark(# ]ness+: after one violent episode,)^ Lois!  as_ks ## (Mary@%%[a n+*@o t to speak of+; it to the Paris cr/;owd.. "Is that all you
%*9re worri
^ed about?" demands an outraged Ma_r]ya. "Yes#,&qu*ot Lois replies w# @it?# h []i
c^/y candor, "as a ?!^^matte$)r of fact."　　Adj^ani won*/ (./t(he= )B]%e`/st Actress
, award at Cannes for her perfo:%rman$-ce@ in Qu
]a@r` tet: he_;r Marya is a ! volatile comp_ound of French # ]sc[,)hoolgi:rl and scorned mistress, veering  !between tremulo@$us?^ joy and hy#.*sterical outbur\^st. Smith-$=` shines ` in one o_/f:: 
 her most memor;( ab-le role?(s[^+!: she imbues Lois +[with a ?Katherine-of-Aragon impotent

rage, a@(
s hu$miliated as %= she is pow#erless in the face of her husba+$nd&#![39$s choices. Her interac(?[t/(ions wi_#(`th B`]at:es are scene^!;s from__` a marriag_e that has. mo[ ved fro %m
/$ di=sillu#@-sionment to pa)+_ ,le acc]_eptance.　　Ruth Pr awe!=[=r Jh=;abvala ,(and James Ivory9s !sc:reenplay u?]
s\!:es Rhys&# =_3@[9s novel[( as a fou_(;ndation`[( f rom which i+
t constructs a wor/?/@ld th at;) is both true to the -*novel an!d di[s#%tinctive ,;@in its o?:%!wn r- ight, paint#ing a society  that has\(: los t\
! it\s ,in)hibiti$]@,ons and ?i+nadverte[ ntly los
t its$, so^ul?+. [$We!\
are taken to \*@mirr ored ca?
=fes, then mo#_?/ve th[^rough`+% t/)_he looki
ng glass:(, Marya, _.;in ?on /.:-e s cene,.,(% /[+,.is \`offer/ed a jo;
b`!+ 
as*, a mod]el(`, ;[and then finds her self in a sadom^asochistic porn!:ographer's :st.udio. The f!ilm,.#^ as:=\ photographed by Pierre %
L```*ho:)mme@,/@) creates tho]rough#ly ci #$n*?ematic m`/oments t]hat$; Rh#y's )]%novel ]_@could not have= attempted=`: in o]!ne of#? the I[(v=(ory(9s mos
t memorable ?sc_[+enes, a black Am/@*erica#_%n chanteu )se- .+ (extraordi;n/arily pla\yed  ?by/  Armelia McQue@;-en) en=(te rtains P(@\-aris$:^+ian pa__trons? %!wi^!th a;[ big and br$^assy jazz song, neither subtle= nor.=;? ele*gant. Ivory kee+ )p\@s the camera on@= the- singer&#%%3`
9$!s[ a((ct: there is
( something in her unguard\
ed sm+ *i[!*@`le that makes the danger beneath Montp?:
,ar`$nasse m$@anne` rs seem;- mor !*e acute.