Hong Kong French Film Festival
29 Nov ~ 10 Dec 2006
Heading South
南方的誘惑
Theatre, HK City Hall
Lecture Hall, HK Space Museum
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With Human Resources and Time Out , Laurent Cantet has established himself as one of French cinema's leading screen realists and analysts of social discontent. His third feature – an investigation of sexual tourism – is arguably his most achieved, and certainly his most challenging. The setting is a beach resort in late 70s Haiti, where middle-aged North American women go to be sexually pampered by young black men, rewarding them with economic and quasi-maternal favours. Outside the hotel's artificial bubble, the Duvalier regime is in power, and it can't be long before Legba, one of the young men, falls foul of the all-powerful Macoute militia. Basing their script on three stories by the Haitian writer Dany Laferrière, Cantet and regular co-writer Robin Campillo sensitively but trenchantly look into a complex nexus of sexual and political issues. Among the cast of this gripping, compact drama, Karen Young is terrific as the vulnerable Brenda, while as the ambivalent, possessive, highly knowing Ellen, Charlotte Rampling rides her current career renaissance with cool, abrasive brilliance.
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自《人力資源》及《謊人手記》這兩部影片後，羅倫．康堤已成為法國影壇上以寫實手法描寫和分析社會不安的先軀之一。本片是他的第三部長片，據說也是最成功的，而且肯定是最具挑戰性，因為他是藉此探討那些以性愛作招徠的旅遊業。故事背景是七十年代海地的一處海濱渡假勝地，那裡是北美洲的中年婦女熱愛的渡假勝地，她們以金錢和類似母愛的溫情的來換取年輕力壯的黑人男子所提供的短暫性愛慰藉。在這人工打造的伊甸園以外是獨裁者杜華利統治的世界。而不須多久，粉紅色的美夢泡沫終會幻滅，其中一名叫力巴的年輕男子被海地的秘密警察殺害。 劇本改編自海地作家 Dany Laferrière 的三個不同的故事。片中的兩位女角分別由嘉雲．楊飾演柔弱易受傷害的白蓮達，而性格矛盾，佔有慾強和自以為是的艾蓮則由演技精湛的莎樂蒂．夏佩玲飾演。 |
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2006 / Color 彩色 / 105mins Drama 劇情片 Director 導演： Laurent Cantet 羅倫‧康堤 Cast 演員： Charlotte Rampling, Karen Young, Louise
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