Marin Karmitz's avant-garde short film is a haunting tale about an alcoholic novelist facing a crippling case of writer's block.

1976 film by Marguerite Duras

剧情 一个法国少年和一个阿拉伯少年自幼便是街头的混混，他们缺乏家庭的温暖和社会的关注，以偷窃为乐，但当他们自认为最愚笨的同学摇身成为大富翁时，他们目瞪口呆，习惯了街头恶习的两人在辞工后不久，又陷入了爱情的困惑，最终都被警察带走，但他们对生活已经绝望，剩下的是两人间不变的友谊。 更多剧情>> 幕后花絮 本片属于波尔电影，也就是反映在法国的阿尔及利亚后裔人的电影作品。导演沙里夫是阿尔及利亚后裔，本片根据他的自传体小说改编，非常直白地将当时法国社会的阴暗现实反映出来。影片最后点出主题，渴望拆除种族的藩篱，超越肤色和种族和平友好地生活下去。整部电影的叙事手法平平，只是倒叙一段类似“戏中戏”处理得较有复古味道，不失讽刺韵味，人物的心理描写也细致准确，属于一部表现社会底层青年生活的社会写实作品。

A man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. So powerful are the emotions that seize him that he imagines she is still alive, and begins to live as if this were the case...

The famed French ideologue of the New Novel and author of Hiroshima Mon Amour creates a hypnotic film about five alienated people isolated in an unworldly hotel. Enmeshed in ritualistic power games, they continuously exchange personalities as each acts out his own ambigious charades. A highly stylized, non-logical dialogue creates enigmatic fear; long, uniterrupted takes and absence of close-ups evoke ennui and distance. At the end, there is a mysterious climax of revolutionary destruction. ---- Amos Vogel “Film as asubversive art”