木下惠介遇上黑泽明的剧本,分明一部喜剧,越看下去越是人性和命运的交响曲。喜剧的前提和开篇,滑稽贪婪的房屋经纪要赶走租住其目标破房子的穷画家,跟情妇搬到画家楼上见步行步。不正经的情妇给楼下的开心快活人天天小姐前小姐后,叫得真以为自己是大家闺秀了,谁知烦恼就这么开始。当画家 的模特儿本是美事啊,给那眼睛望着真如沐在清澈河水里,但善良的眼神无声无息变了穿心箭,用心做小姐原来好痛苦。楼上叹世界楼下捱世界,孰是天国孰是地狱,就是吊诡。 @Summer IFF 2012From a script by his more widely recognised peer, Kurosawa Akira, Kinoshita Keisuke constructs a sensitive examination of an affluent but spiritually bankrupt real estate broker forced into a fresh outlook on life by an impoverished but enlightened artist. Intending to turn a tidy profit renovating a crumbling house, the broker tries to drive the artist and his family out of the home by moving his bawdy mistress into it. The plan starts to splinter when she agrees to sit for a portrait. Kinoshita deftly balances humour and drama for an astute reflection on art, reality, commerce, and fundamental humanism.
1940年的冬天,中国孤儿楚楚(郭柯宇)和罗小蛮(徐啸力)被送入莫斯科近郊的伊万诺夫国际儿童院学习。课堂上,当楚楚讲述自己亲眼目睹父亲惨遭法西斯刽子手杀害的情景时,老师和同学都震惊不已,随后,她和罗小蛮过上一段相对平静的日子,两人后来因夏令营分头去了不同城市。德军入侵莫斯科令楚楚又一次亲眼目睹死亡,而她自己也被德军抓住,落入一个有在女性人体上纹身作画癖好的德国将军之手,噩梦自此不断,罗小蛮则在后方当上了递送阵亡通知的“黑色信使”。