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　　彼得·奥图尔饰演时装杂志的编辑，对美女见一个爱一个，令他大感困扰，因此去向心理医生彼得·塞勒斯求教，不料这个天才医生比他还疯狂。加上损友伍迪·艾伦又从中搞局，使他跟未婚妻罗密·施奈德之间的关系更形混乱。　　这部影片由后来成为美国著名导演的伍迪·艾伦编剧，这也是他步入影坛的处女作，他还在其中担纲演出。影片由英国导演克莱夫·唐纳执导。影片以一个情场过于无往不利的男人却又一个劲地想对未婚妻守节这样的荒诞情节，演绎了一场两性讽刺喜剧。全片充满擦抢走火式的笑料，演员均有如热锅上的蚂蚁走来走去，气氛相当热闹。影片由英国著名喜剧演员彼得·塞勒斯出演搞笑医生的角色，而以出演《阿拉伯的劳伦斯》成名的英国影星彼得·奥图...

　　弗蒙（赫尔穆特·贝格 Helmut Berger 饰）是一名美容医生，表面看来，他衣冠楚楚非常值得信赖，但实际上，他的内心里藏着许许多多的邪恶想法。这么多年来，他一直联手残忍的院长尼坦丽（碧姬·莱尔 Brigitte Lahaie 饰），干着绑架妙龄少女的勾当，他们将少女残忍杀死，抽出她们的骨髓和鲜血，制成能够回春的美容药物，卖给阔太太们。　　终于有一天，弗蒙遭到了受害者亲人的报复，可是倒霉的却是他的妹妹英格（Christiane Jean 饰）。英格的脸遭到了硫酸毁容，痛心疾首的弗蒙发誓一定要让妹妹恢复美貌，于是开始绑架美女，剥下她们的面皮，试图嫁接到英格的脸上，但这些试验无一不失败了。

　　The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements: water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive: Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna.　　The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator,　　the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination.　　Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.

　　一个虚构的年代背景，经济萧条，人人自危，甚至要以人肉为食物赖以生存。　　一幢破败的房子里住在屠夫一家。他们亦靠屠宰人肉为食。诡秘荒诞的色调下，屠夫挥舞着明晃晃的刀宰杀人肉。而这幢楼，还住着各式充满诡异色彩的人物：吃蜗牛的住客、对自杀非常迷恋的女人，爱切罐头的男子……　　他们说过，如果没有外来的食物补给，那么自己人的肉也不会放过，小丑路易（多米尼克•皮诺 Dominique Pinon 饰）前来打工，闯入了这个荒唐的世界，成为大家眼里的盘中餐。然而，屠夫的女儿（玛希罗蒂杜娜Marie-Laure Dougnac 饰）却爱上了他，并设法帮助他逃过大劫，这片世界开始陷入了混乱和崩溃之中。

　　以火车为主要叙事舞台的影片中，约翰．弗兰肯海默导演的这部战争动作片是令人难忘的杰作。故事时代背景是二次世界大战末期，德军眼看大势已去，深黯艺术无价的德国指挥官保罗．斯科菲尔德乃下令将一批法国名画从博物馆搬回德国去。负责驾驶这列火车的司机伯特．兰卡斯特在严密监视下，仍跟法国铁路局人员及地下游击队配合行动，用鱼目混珠及瞒骗等种种方式跟德军斗智，力保国宝不致流出国境之外。全片剧情结构严谨，气氛处理紧凑生动，常有令人捏一把汗的精彩场面出现。两位男主角的表演旗逢敌手，张力十足，也表现了各自的爱国心。