乔尔（托马斯·南吉乔尔 Thomas N'Gijol 饰）和瑞吉斯（法布里斯·厄部埃 Fabrice Eboué 饰）是同父异母的兄弟。乔尔是一个地地道道的黑人，他痛恨自己的血统和外貌，将自己人生的全部失败都归结于种族歧视之中。瑞吉斯虽然没有乔尔这么“黑”，但他同样不愿意承认自己拥有一半的黑人血统，兄弟两人之间的关系也十分的糟糕。 　　某日，传来了两人父亲去世的消息，父亲留下了一笔遗产，为了争夺这份遗产，兄弟两人之间发生了激烈的冲突，并且惹出了非常多的麻烦。这一切都被一位神秘的老妇人看在眼底，为了给兄弟两人一个教训，老妇人将他们传送回了奴隶年代，两兄弟成为了奴隶市场里挂牌出售的“商品”。

《法尔比克》（Farrebique ou les quatre saisons，乔治·鲁吉埃，1946年|92分钟|35毫米|黑白|有声）以搬演的手法记录了法国南部普罗旺斯地区一户农民的生活。在一个叫固特兰的村子里，法勒比克一家筹划着如何过冬。他们讨论是否修缮年久失修的祖屋，年迈的父亲固执己见，坚持不要破坏祖屋的完整性。从这个简单而富有戏剧性的家庭争论开始，通过四季的更迭，影片展现了法国一户普通农民的日常生活（本片的完整片名为“法尔比克或四季”）。本片导演乔治·鲁吉埃（Georges Rouquier，1909—1989）生于本片所描绘的法国南部，在这部向故乡致敬的影片里，他通过非职业演员的表演重现了法国南部乡村生活，呈现给观众的真实并非严格意义上的纪录电影的真实，而是更加内在富有诗意的真实。本片可以说是法国版的《北方的纳努克》，鲁吉埃拍摄本片时曾经受到美国纪录片大师罗伯特·弗拉哈迪的启发。本片荣获1946 年戛纳电影节评委会大奖和法国电影大奖。38年后，鲁吉埃重游故地重访故人，拍摄了本片的续集《比克法尔》（Biquefarre，即将原片名的两个音节颠倒过来，本片又名《38年后》，荣获1983年威尼斯电影节评委会大奖）。此外，鲁吉埃还当过演员，在科斯塔—加夫拉斯导演的影片《Z》中扮演总检察官。

夜幕降临，一架四引擎飞机在机场着陆，走下飞机的是唯一的乘客乔•法尔什——作为法尔什犹太家族最后的幸存者，自从他1938年离开柏林，至今已有四十个年头。在机场到达大厅里等待着乔的，是包括父母、姐妹、兄弟等在集中营丧命的死去的家族以及乔之前所深爱、最终在柏林的轰炸中丧命的纳粹分子的女儿莉莉。一场跨越生死世界的庆典与邂逅就此展开。本片是比利时著名导演组合达内兄弟的剧情片处女作。（小易甫字幕组）

《法尔比克》（Farrebique ou les quatre saisons，乔治·鲁吉埃，1946年|92分钟|35毫米|黑白|有声）以搬演的手法记录了法国南部普罗旺斯地区一户农民的生活。在一个叫固特兰的村子里，法勒比克一家筹划着如何过冬。他们讨论是否修缮年久失修的祖屋，年迈的父亲固执己见，坚持不要破坏祖屋的完整性。从这个简单而富有戏剧性的家庭争论开始，通过四季的更迭，影片展现了法国一户普通农民的日常生活（本片的完整片名为“法尔比克或四季”）。本片导演乔治·鲁吉埃（Georges Rouquier，1909—1989）生于本片所描绘的法国南部，在这部向故乡致敬的影片里，他通过非职业演员的表演重现了法国南部乡村生活，呈现给观众的真实并非严格意义上的纪录电影的真实，而是更加内在富有诗意的真实。本片可以说是法国版的《北方的纳努克》，鲁吉埃拍摄本片时曾经受到美国纪录片大师罗伯特·弗拉哈迪的启发。本片荣获1946 年戛纳电影节评委会大奖和法国电影大奖。38年后，鲁吉埃重游故地重访故人，拍摄了本片的续集《比克法尔》（Biquefarre，即将原片名的两个音节颠倒过来，本片又名《38年后》，荣获1983年威尼斯电影节评委会大奖）。此外，鲁吉埃还当过演员，在科斯塔—加夫拉斯导演的影片《Z》中扮演总检察官。

夜幕降临，一架四引擎飞机在机场着陆，走下飞机的是唯一的乘客乔•法尔什——作为法尔什犹太家族最后的幸存者，自从他1938年离开柏林，至今已有四十个年头。在机场到达大厅里等待着乔的，是包括父母、姐妹、兄弟等在集中营丧命的死去的家族以及乔之前所深爱、最终在柏林的轰炸中丧命的纳粹分子的女儿莉莉。一场跨越生死世界的庆典与邂逅就此展开。本片是比利时著名导演组合达内兄弟的剧情片处女作。（小易甫字幕组）

In an episode that occurs halfway through Tarrafal, Cape Verdean immigrant José Alberto, having just received his expulsion notice, encounters the elderly, displaced Fonthainas resident Ventura waiting on the side of a dirt road as his friend, Alfredo tries in vain to catch rabbits by thrashing random bushes with a wooden club. In a way, the idea of silent, enduring landscapes as figurative intersections for other unfolding - and often converging - human stories (a recurring theme in José Luis Guerín's cinema as well) may be seen as a metaphor for Pedro Costa's densely layered themes of dislocation and statelessness. As subsequently revealed in The Rabbit Hunters, Alfredo, too, is homeless, resorting to a life in the streets after having been thrown out of the apartment by his wife. In Tarrafal, this converging image of forced - and implicitly traumatic - displacement and exile is established in the opening images of José Alberto's ironic inquiries to his mother over the derelict conditions of their ancestral houses in Cape Verde from his own ramshackle home in the slums. As the conversation morphs from the neglect and inhabitability of their beloved, deserted homes that recalls the reclamation of abandoned ghost houses in In Vanda's Room, to the strange tales of a blood-sucking phantasm who foretells a person's hour of death by surreptitiously leaving letters in the most mundane of hiding places to be subsequently retrieved at the time of their immutable appointment - an impersonal, life-altering communication that alludes to the state's arbitrary dispensation of deportation and eviction notices in modern day Portugal - Costa illustrates a sense of anonymous interchangeability among the transitory, drifting souls of Tarrafal. Visually, this sense of surrogacy and transplantation is reflected in the repeating angular doorway view of José Alberto's house: first, in the solitary image of José Alberto facing away from the camera as he sits on a wooden plank to smoke, then subsequently, in a reframed shot of Ventura and Alfredo seated on the same plank looking out into the neighboring town, commenting on the profound transformation of the once desolate landscape (note Alfredo's humorous misidentification of stray cats as rabbits that further reinforces their seeming interchangeability). Moreover, intrinsic in José Alberto's sad tale of requesting a work release to single-handedly bury his estranged father, and the rabbit hunters' conversation over their mistreatment and death at the hands of authorities is the specter of Tarrafal's unreconciled history as a prison camp where inmates were tortured and relegated to die a slow death. Composed as skewed, frame within frame stationary shots that evoke the acute angles and distanced address of Straub/Huillet, these parallel testimonies of dislocation, separation, entrapment, and fatedness unfold through supplanted images of interchangeable, moribund, drifting ghosts that integrally reflect their own erasure and social invisibility.

Falcón is a brilliant detective whose personal and professional life is compromised by dark secrets from the past.

Falcón is a brilliant detective whose personal and professional life is compromised by dark secrets from the past.

In an episode that occurs halfway through Tarrafal, Cape Verdean immigrant José Alberto, having just received his expulsion notice, encounters the elderly, displaced Fonthainas resident Ventura waiting on the side of a dirt road as his friend, Alfredo tries in vain to catch rabbits by thrashing random bushes with a wooden club. In a way, the idea of silent, enduring landscapes as figurative intersections for other unfolding - and often converging - human stories (a recurring theme in José Luis Guerín's cinema as well) may be seen as a metaphor for Pedro Costa's densely layered themes of dislocation and statelessness. As subsequently revealed in The Rabbit Hunters, Alfredo, too, is homeless, resorting to a life in the streets after having been thrown out of the apartment by his wife. In Tarrafal, this converging image of forced - and implicitly traumatic - displacement and exile is established in the opening images of José Alberto's ironic inquiries to his mother over the derelict conditions of their ancestral houses in Cape Verde from his own ramshackle home in the slums. As the conversation morphs from the neglect and inhabitability of their beloved, deserted homes that recalls the reclamation of abandoned ghost houses in In Vanda's Room, to the strange tales of a blood-sucking phantasm who foretells a person's hour of death by surreptitiously leaving letters in the most mundane of hiding places to be subsequently retrieved at the time of their immutable appointment - an impersonal, life-altering communication that alludes to the state's arbitrary dispensation of deportation and eviction notices in modern day Portugal - Costa illustrates a sense of anonymous interchangeability among the transitory, drifting souls of Tarrafal. Visually, this sense of surrogacy and transplantation is reflected in the repeating angular doorway view of José Alberto's house: first, in the solitary image of José Alberto facing away from the camera as he sits on a wooden plank to smoke, then subsequently, in a reframed shot of Ventura and Alfredo seated on the same plank looking out into the neighboring town, commenting on the profound transformation of the once desolate landscape (note Alfredo's humorous misidentification of stray cats as rabbits that further reinforces their seeming interchangeability). Moreover, intrinsic in José Alberto's sad tale of requesting a work release to single-handedly bury his estranged father, and the rabbit hunters' conversation over their mistreatment and death at the hands of authorities is the specter of Tarrafal's unreconciled history as a prison camp where inmates were tortured and relegated to die a slow death. Composed as skewed, frame within frame stationary shots that evoke the acute angles and distanced address of Straub/Huillet, these parallel testimonies of dislocation, separation, entrapment, and fatedness unfold through supplanted images of interchangeable, moribund, drifting ghosts that integrally reflect their own erasure and social invisibility.