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　　2011年意大利最新剧情佳作戛纳电影节导演双周单元埃松电影节评审团特别奖影片以近乎记录片的手法记录了一位小女孩内心的挣扎
　　13岁的玛塔生活在意大利南部深处她在瑞士呆了10年现在正在努力适应着回到意大利的生活长着一对明亮大眼睛的她时常感到不安和害怕她用着自己所有的感官在感受这个城市她看她听她感受但是她却觉得自己只是一个局外人
　　玛塔即将在当地的天主教教堂里举行自己的受洗仪式根据天主教教义的规定玛塔必须通晓教义问答集的内容并且将其作为自己的行为准则来遵守可就在这个节骨眼上玛塔和她的妈妈妹妹以及学校的老师起了冲突在经历了一些事情之后她决定剪掉自己的头发开始新的生活
　　从这一刻起玛塔才觉得自己在回到意大利之后真正地活了一次
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　　可能导演真正犯下的错误只有忽视了主角的观点和性格这一项不过如果把影片放在纪录片美学的框架下看这又算不得什么缺点只能说是导演为了实践纪录片美学所做的妥协每日银幕
　　简单随性的故事若即若离的镜头语言这是一部很标准的欧洲文艺片可能只有小部分影迷才能欣赏它综艺杂志
　　应该说这是一部完全遵循现实主义的要件而创作出来的影片它探讨的是关于信仰和成长的话题加之一些象征的元素让影片很有观赏性好莱坞报道者
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　　影片在意大利南部小城雷焦卡拉布里亚拍摄在影片中这个地方显得脏穷以及脱离现代社会导演洛瓦赫是在拍摄记录片的时候发现这个地方的她说就在这个地方孩子们需要捡垃圾过活我很喜欢这里所以决定要把天体给放在这里拍摄这里显得很真实它的的确确地表现出了整个意大利的矛盾在漂亮的风景之下人们却被现代化的进程搅得心神不宁这个城市的特质表现出了整个意大利的浮躁
　　影片用一个寻找自我的故事讲述了一个关于迷失和宗教问题的主题实际上洛瓦赫在一开始并没有把迷失作为主题来创作她说整部电影建立在我的调查的基础之上的并没有从一开始就准备从迷失这个主题开始创作我在调查的时候发现在一个社区中几乎所有人都处在迷失中所以我创造了玛塔这个角色让她迷失自己在大千世界中为自己寻觅一个合适的位置影片中出现了不少批判宗教的内容可以看出来洛瓦赫对于宗教很有意见在电影中唐·马里奥神父对于信徒的信仰问题和困顿并不关心他只关心自己的事业洛瓦赫说在如今的意大利这是一种极为普遍的现象而且马里奥这个角色也来自于现实很多神父虽然表面上从事的是神职工作但实际上已经变成了权利的信徒他们工作的内容就是盖教堂想着如何升迁并如何发展更多的信徒让自己的权力更加庞大他们从来不教导人该如何去拥有信仰只是让人们一个劲地去记那些教义问答集里的内容让人去做祷告这和真正的宗教背道而驰
　　本片导演爱丽丝·洛瓦赫在拍摄这部电影之前一直是一个纪录片导演所以本片也就不可避免地带上了纪录片气质从镜头到故事从剪辑到氛围天体的本质都更接近于纪录片而不是故事片尤其是影片对玛塔生活和选择的描写既淡定又冷酷摄影机好像只是一个旁观者对所有的事件只负责记录不负责评价谈到这种镜头语言必须要提到影片的摄影师Hélène Louvart这位杰出的摄影师的上一部作品是维姆·文德斯的纪录片皮娜谈及Louvart爱丽丝·洛瓦赫说我们合作得非常愉快她总是能很快地抓住你想要的东西而且她好像也没有费什么大力气就达到了我的要求他和我都是那种崇尚简单工作的人就是如此我们才把这部电影的视觉效果打造得这么出色总体来说这部电影关注的是精神上的东西精神上的想法实际上并不飘渺有人觉得精神内容是虚幻的其实精神恰恰是实际的是真实的是某种根植于内心深处的内容这就是影片标题天体的含义宇宙中的天体显得十分飘渺而且不可触及可是它们就是真实的存在在那里而且已经存在了上万上亿年这和精神的不可触及但是很实际的特质可以说是一模一样

　　很久很久以前有一个叫雷·派的男孩他会把破旧罐头压扁后放入鞋垫让自己看起来更高一点某一天他谋杀了两个女孩四年后探长查理·席林打算将这个凶手绳之以法同时雷·派也在犯罪的道路上越走越远

　　Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley#39;s early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career
　　Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality though using sex for several years; obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich eg, her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude but unseen work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc
　　As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone quot;I#39;m a mechanicquot;, yet the symbolism is rich he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy is, in fact a virgin, and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played
　　The scene between Josh and Jane a wonderful, young Edie Falco quot;You need a woman not a girlquot; is hilarious real But Hartley can#39;t leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue overandover becomes frustratingly quot;artyquot; and annoying until again it becomes hilarious What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film like kids in a perpetual quot;am notquot;/quot;are tooquot; argument
　　Hartley#39;s weaves all of a small neighborhood#39;s idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the quot;unbelievable truthquot; of the title is, yet no two people can agree including our hero on what exactly that truth is A wonderful little movie with some big ideas