Michael Wood explores the life, works and influence of one of the world's greatest storytellers who died 2,000 years ago. When an Elizabethan literary critic said that the witty soul of Ovid lived on in 'honey tongued Shakespeare' they were just stating the obvious. Ovid, everyone knew, was simply the most clever, sexy and funny poet in the western tradition. His Metamorphoses, it has often been said, is the most influential secular book in European literature. 　　Unique among ancient poets, Ovid left us an autobiography, full of riveting intimacy, as well as ironical and slippery self-justification. Using Ovid's own words, brought to life by one of Britain's leading actors, Simon Russell Beale, the film tells the story of the poet's fame, and his fateful falling out with the most powerful man in the world, the Roman emperor Augustus. 　　Born in Sulmona in central Italy, Ovid moved to Rome to study law but, seduced by 'the muse of poetry', he soon abandoned that career path. Part of Rome's post-war, young generation, Ovid rose to spectacular fame with his poems about sex - Love Affairs (Amores) and The Art of Love (Ars Amatoria) - an amoral guide to seduction and adultery. Today some of his poems are seen as problematic and even carry a health warning when studied in US universities. But he is difficult to pigeonhole as he also took the female side in a powerful series of fictional letters by women heroes. 　　By his twenties he was a literary superstar and a thorn in the emperor's side, his poetry of sex and seduction falling foul of the emperor's new puritanism, which had even outlawed adultery. In the midst of a sensational sex scandal involving his daughter, the Emperor Augustus banished Ovid to the farthest edge of the empire - the wilds of the Black Sea coast and the marshes of the Danube delta. It's a tale full of sex, drama and scandal, but his banishment is still a mystery- as he put it, 'my downfall was all because of a poem - and a mistake- and on the latter my lips are sealed forever'. 　　Exile in Romania was unbelievably harsh and dangerous, but worse for Ovid was a sense of separation and loss. His poetry from the Black Sea has inspired the European literature of exile for millennia, from Dante and Petrarch to Mandelstam and Seamus Heaney. The poems, the mystery, and Ovid's immense legacy in world literature and art, are discussed with leading experts, who trace his influence on, among others, Titian, Turner and even Bob Dylan, whose Modern Times album quarries Ovid's exile poetry. His greatest and most influential work Metamorphoses, a compendium of the great tales of Greek myth, became one of the core texts of Western culture. Artistic director of the RSC, Greg Doran looks at Ovid's influence on Shakespeare and the myths in the Metamorphoses that pervade our art, music, and literature. Professor Alessandro Schiesaro discusses Ovid and the postmodern imagination; Professor Roy Gibson untangles his relations with Augustus; while Dr Jennifer Ingleheart, author of a new study on Roman sexual politics, looks at Ovid's ambition, psychology and influence. Lisa Dwan -the leading interpreter of the drama of Samuel Beckett, another exile and Ovid fan, explores the poet's use of the female voice and his poetry of exile, which has influenced western writers and artists for the last two millennia. 　　Following in Ovid's footsteps, Michael Wood travels from the poet's birthplace in the beautiful town of Sulmona, to the bright lights of the capital, Rome. Here we visit the Houses of Augustus and Livia, recently opened after 25 years of excavation and conservation. Inside the emperor's private rooms glow with the colour of their newly restored frescoes. Wood then follows Ovid into exile in Constanta in today's Romania, and on to the Danube delta, where dramatic footage shows the Danube and the Black Sea frozen over in winter just as Ovid described in his letters. 　　Throughout the film Ovid's own words reveal an engaging personality: a voice of startling modernity. 'He is funny, irreverent, focused on pleasure and obsessed with sex' says Prof Roy Gibson. But, says Greg Doran, he is also a poet of cruelty and violence, which especially fascinated Shakespeare. Ovid raises very modern questions about the fluidity of identity and gender, and the mutability of nature. He also explores the relationship between writers and power and the experience of exile, themes especially relevant in our time when, as Lisa Dwan observes, exile has become part of the human condition. But above all, says Michael Wood, Ovid is the Poet of Love, and 2,000 years after his death he is back in focus as one of the world's greatest poets: ironical, profound, and relevant.

Michael Wood explores the life, works and influence of one of the world's greatest storytellers who died 2,000 years ago. When an Elizabethan literary critic said that the witty soul of Ovid lived on in 'honey tongued Shakespeare' they were just stating the obvious. Ovid, everyone knew, was simply the most clever, sexy and funny poet in the western tradition. His Metamorphoses, it has often been said, is the most influential secular book in European literature. 　　Unique among ancient poets, Ovid left us an autobiography, full of riveting intimacy, as well as ironical and slippery self-justification. Using Ovid's own words, brought to life by one of Britain's leading actors, Simon Russell Beale, the film tells the story of the poet's fame, and his fateful falling out with the most powerful man in the world, the Roman emperor Augustus. 　　Born in Sulmona in central Italy, Ovid moved to Rome to study law but, seduced by 'the muse of poetry', he soon abandoned that career path. Part of Rome's post-war, young generation, Ovid rose to spectacular fame with his poems about sex - Love Affairs (Amores) and The Art of Love (Ars Amatoria) - an amoral guide to seduction and adultery. Today some of his poems are seen as problematic and even carry a health warning when studied in US universities. But he is difficult to pigeonhole as he also took the female side in a powerful series of fictional letters by women heroes. 　　By his twenties he was a literary superstar and a thorn in the emperor's side, his poetry of sex and seduction falling foul of the emperor's new puritanism, which had even outlawed adultery. In the midst of a sensational sex scandal involving his daughter, the Emperor Augustus banished Ovid to the farthest edge of the empire - the wilds of the Black Sea coast and the marshes of the Danube delta. It's a tale full of sex, drama and scandal, but his banishment is still a mystery- as he put it, 'my downfall was all because of a poem - and a mistake- and on the latter my lips are sealed forever'. 　　Exile in Romania was unbelievably harsh and dangerous, but worse for Ovid was a sense of separation and loss. His poetry from the Black Sea has inspired the European literature of exile for millennia, from Dante and Petrarch to Mandelstam and Seamus Heaney. The poems, the mystery, and Ovid's immense legacy in world literature and art, are discussed with leading experts, who trace his influence on, among others, Titian, Turner and even Bob Dylan, whose Modern Times album quarries Ovid's exile poetry. His greatest and most influential work Metamorphoses, a compendium of the great tales of Greek myth, became one of the core texts of Western culture. Artistic director of the RSC, Greg Doran looks at Ovid's influence on Shakespeare and the myths in the Metamorphoses that pervade our art, music, and literature. Professor Alessandro Schiesaro discusses Ovid and the postmodern imagination; Professor Roy Gibson untangles his relations with Augustus; while Dr Jennifer Ingleheart, author of a new study on Roman sexual politics, looks at Ovid's ambition, psychology and influence. Lisa Dwan -the leading interpreter of the drama of Samuel Beckett, another exile and Ovid fan, explores the poet's use of the female voice and his poetry of exile, which has influenced western writers and artists for the last two millennia. 　　Following in Ovid's footsteps, Michael Wood travels from the poet's birthplace in the beautiful town of Sulmona, to the bright lights of the capital, Rome. Here we visit the Houses of Augustus and Livia, recently opened after 25 years of excavation and conservation. Inside the emperor's private rooms glow with the colour of their newly restored frescoes. Wood then follows Ovid into exile in Constanta in today's Romania, and on to the Danube delta, where dramatic footage shows the Danube and the Black Sea frozen over in winter just as Ovid described in his letters. 　　Throughout the film Ovid's own words reveal an engaging personality: a voice of startling modernity. 'He is funny, irreverent, focused on pleasure and obsessed with sex' says Prof Roy Gibson. But, says Greg Doran, he is also a poet of cruelty and violence, which especially fascinated Shakespeare. Ovid raises very modern questions about the fluidity of identity and gender, and the mutability of nature. He also explores the relationship between writers and power and the experience of exile, themes especially relevant in our time when, as Lisa Dwan observes, exile has become part of the human condition. But above all, says Michael Wood, Ovid is the Poet of Love, and 2,000 years after his death he is back in focus as one of the world's greatest poets: ironical, profound, and relevant.

每当我们开始恋爱的时候，在这个精确的时刻，我们心中总会编写出一支特殊的乐曲。每个人的乐曲都不尽相同，它们在出其不意的时候突然出现……

每当我们开始恋爱的时候，在这个精确的时刻，我们心中总会编写出一支特殊的乐曲。每个人的乐曲都不尽相同，它们在出其不意的时候突然出现……

故事发生于20世纪的德国，在一片茂密的森林里，隐藏着一所不为人知的神秘学校。在学校里，生活着一群年轻的女孩们，没有人知道她们是从哪里来的，就连她们自己也不太清楚。所有人仿佛一生下来就已经身在这闭塞的高墙之内，完全不知道外面还有着更广阔的的世界。 　　海达拉（玛丽·奈姬 Mary Nighy 饰）、埃伦娜（汉娜·泰勒-高登 Hannah Taylor-Gordon 饰）、薇拉（娜塔丽·特纳 Natalia Tena 饰）和雷恩（安雅·拉希里 Anya Lahiri 饰）均是这所学校里的学生，当她们开始质疑起她们的生活和过去时，原本维系着学校内事务正常运作的条条框框都开始失去功能，两个女生的神秘失踪更是为此增添了不安定的因素。

故事发生于20世纪的德国，在一片茂密的森林里，隐藏着一所不为人知的神秘学校。在学校里，生活着一群年轻的女孩们，没有人知道她们是从哪里来的，就连她们自己也不太清楚。所有人仿佛一生下来就已经身在这闭塞的高墙之内，完全不知道外面还有着更广阔的的世界。 　　海达拉（玛丽·奈姬 Mary Nighy 饰）、埃伦娜（汉娜·泰勒-高登 Hannah Taylor-Gordon 饰）、薇拉（娜塔丽·特纳 Natalia Tena 饰）和雷恩（安雅·拉希里 Anya Lahiri 饰）均是这所学校里的学生，当她们开始质疑起她们的生活和过去时，原本维系着学校内事务正常运作的条条框框都开始失去功能，两个女生的神秘失踪更是为此增添了不安定的因素。

The play of rich color and moments of complete darkness combined with a striking array of characters facing the viewer creates a bracing visual foundation for this quietly unsettling story of a man’s emotional life with women. Told in first-person narration over a series of moody, loosely illustrative tableaux (or, at times, a darkened screen), L'ART D'AIMER (THE ART OF LOVING) traces a circuitous line from young adulthood to senility as it relates the psychosexual turmoi...

The play of rich color and moments of complete darkness combined with a striking array of characters facing the viewer creates a bracing visual foundation for this quietly unsettling story of a man’s emotional life with women. Told in first-person narration over a series of moody, loosely illustrative tableaux (or, at times, a darkened screen), L'ART D'AIMER (THE ART OF LOVING) traces a circuitous line from young adulthood to senility as it relates the psychosexual turmoi...

一部难得的片子，通过毕加索的家人，前妻，画商，朋友的解读，我们才知，尽管毕加索的晚年作品濒临色情的边缘，但也让我们见识了什么是不顾一切狂野地表达自己突破绘画技巧！而为了悟透男人与女人，性欲与爱的关系，纪录片里会解密他是如何做的。毕加索一生都受性的诱惑，他在作品与生活中都全身心地享受性的乐趣。毕加索每次换个女人，也是每次换个标准，换个视觉，因为他要全部占有女人，直至她的视觉；这时他自己也换了个人。“标准”、“改变视觉”、“性的对话”、“性与心的转换”、“占有女人直至她的视觉”，这是毕加索的艺术中的性心理学的一条粉红色线。如果狄德罗知道了，会说这是极佳的心理临床学。因为他早在两个半世纪以前就说：“一切生物都是你中有我，我中有你……任何禽兽都多少是人，任何矿物都多少是植物，任何植物都多少是禽兽……人是什么?人是某类倾向的总和。”