“A motion picture composed of brief diaristic scenes not used in completed films from the years 1960-2000; and self-referential video footage taped during the editing. Brief glimpses of family, friends, girl-friends, the City, seasons of the year, travels. Occasionally I talk, reminisce, or play music I taped during those earlier years, plus more recent piano improvisations by Auguste Varkalis. It’s a kind of autobiographical, diaristic poem, celebration of happiness and life. I consider myself a happy man.” –J.M. “In a film of amazing delicacy and poetic insight, Mekas celebrates the beauty of imperfect images…” –Amy Taubin “OUT-TAKES starts with Mekas alone at night while the city sleeps, editing his old films. As he looks back over his life he starts to talk, insisting that his life’s work amounts to ‘just images, some fragments of this world’ that he will bring together for himself and a few friends. But as images of the people who brought joy into his life pass by, we realize that most of them are no longer alive. Mekas sees them again, but he is seeing them alone. As much as it is about his happy life, the film is also about emptiness, loss, and a longing for some sort of spiritual consolation. At one moment the cover of St John of the Cross’s MEDITATIONS appears on screen. This is Mekas’s long dark night of the soul.” – Richard Dorment, THE TELEGRAPH Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man, Jonas Mekas USA/UK, 2012, 68 min, 16mm&video, color, mono

Gabrielle, a dedicated surgeon and head of a hospital department, is stretched thin by the weight of responsibility. There is little time left for her private life: a loving husband and a mother who depends on her care. Yet this is the life she wanted, the life she chose. When a novelist comes to observe her at work for a book, her balance begins to shift.

Gabrielle, a fifty-year-old surgeon, is questioning herself about love, desire, aging, all against the backdrop of a hospital crisis, when a novelist arrives to watch her work for a book she's writing.

在上世纪80年代库卡卡曾经为他的同乡好友兼导演创作过两个电影剧本，这部《一个人的生活》就是其中之一，个人感觉这部以情动人的悲喜剧并不像库卡卡自己的玩闹风格，毕竟不是他导的，影片的悲剧色彩很重，涉及到的题材比较严肃。IMDB上9.5的评分不知是怎么弄出来的，其实没必要那么高。4/5推荐。 A man's life falls apart after he quits his job at a sawmill, and subsequently kicks his wife and son out of the house. If Musa can only bring himself to stomach his work at the saw mill for a little longer, he will reach retirement age and will have a nice pension. However, a strike has brought home to him just how bad the wages and working conditions are, and he doesn't return after the strike is over. Meanwhile, his son has had no job for a long time but plays soccer all the time, when he is not wooing the girl who runs the newsstand at the train station. Musa is a bad-tempered fellow who quarrels often with his son. On one of these occasions, his wife throws both of them out of the house. Later she goes mad and then dies. Eventually, the son is arrested for a rape he didn't commit, but this doesn't stop the boy and his girlfriend from getting married, they just do it in jail. The father, left alone with his grudges and grievances, seems to collapse in on himself. This wonderful tragicomedy is wrote by Emir Kusturica.

A young man finds love and settles down, but when his young wife spirals into depression they both have decisions to make.

对 Virgile 而言，这本可能是普通的一天，但结果却并非如此。在遭受了一次奇怪的袭击后，这个年轻人被迫与Robert Lesmur共用一个化妆间，后者是他做配的戏剧中的主演。Robert是个令人不安的角色，他激怒了Virgile，愤怒很快就会将Virgile淹没。

莫里克斯和玛丽娜在一个巴黎的节日上相遇。五年后，他们有了两个孩子。因为家庭的责任，使莫里克斯的导演工作，随着操劳家庭而离自己越来越远。而玛丽娜事业蒸蒸日上，离家庭生活也越来越远。终于，在一次伊比沙岛的旅途中玛丽娜出走。几年后，当玛丽娜带领着一群美国客户再次出现在比利牛斯山脉时，玛丽娜发现了莫里克...

故事围绕一男两女的复杂关系展开，阿贝尔的女友玛丽安因爱上阿贝尔好友保罗而离开，保罗死后玛丽安回到阿贝尔身边，此时阿贝尔已与保罗的妹妹相恋。