本作は「ショートストーリーによって連結された町の物語」であり、主役は町そのもの。その不思議な感覚は特殊な撮影⼿法によってもたらされている。横浜市泉区上飯⽥町、横浜の端っこで⽣まれた3つの⼩話。 　　『いなめない話』 　　⽣命保険の営業のヒロコが、乾物屋で働くマコトの依頼で訪問し営業をすることに。マコトが依頼をしてきたのに、なぜかヒロコに⾼慢な態度で迫るがその裏には…。 　　『あきらめきれない話』 　　もうすぐ結婚するショウは、仲の悪い兄ツヨシに結婚式に出てもらいたく兄の家に⾏くが、兄は頑なに出たくないと⾔う。 　　『どっこいどっこいな話』 　　知らない場所に⾏っては、そこでもし⽣活したらということを想像するナオキ。ある⽇上飯⽥町を写真に撮っていると乾物屋のマコトと出会い、そこでつかの間の奇妙な関係が始まる。

We pick up the story on our main character's bus ride home. He sits alone, looking content, trying to pass the time. Then, something seems to get in his eye, because he rubs it and then closes the buses window. Something changes about him. He looks around and feels a strange disgust in the bus filled with quiet strangers also trying to get home and minding their own business. Pavel-Ivanovich is so disgusted that he gets off the bus several stops before his home and walks, arriving at dark. From here his story begins, and we go along for his sad ride. From that evening on he sees only sadness and wrong in everything. He can't respond to kindness, and scolds those closest to him. He offends everyone. At his work he tries to go against as many people as possible, and hurt ordinary citizens too. He also feels that everyone is against him. His condition seems to worsen. How will all this end. Sure this can't be the end for Pavel-Ivanovich, a good man somewhere deep inside. 　　The brilliance of this film lies in the main character's deep state of mind. His suffering. The fact that he hurts everyone around him, feels horrible about it but still does it until he almost loses everything. If you like film's where you feel that you can relate or feel the character's emotions, you might like this film. An incredible pressure is built up throughout the film, and the last scene, for me at least, magically lifts it, if only for a couple of seconds. 　　This is a strange film, and I don't say that a lot. It is very hard to describe, but the main elements that drive the feel of this film are the main character's state of mind and the music (more than half of the film has incredible original music playing in the background). Daneliya's films have incredible music like in Autumn Marathon, Kin-Dza-Dza, and Thirty-Three. Daneliyaa was into jazz and played drums in a band way back before he started making film so his films are very rich in music. Also this film is sad, but is also a comedy. All these elements mix to make an incredible movie

“Magabanashi” (真・狩場噺) is a Japanese collection of chilling tales, notorious for its “true” ghost stories that blend traditional storytelling with the dynamics of social media. Based on this, the drama “Human Story” focuses on the experiences of two members of the FEAR fan community. But is it really just a drama? Or perhaps a documentary? With an eerie intertwining of ghost stories and reality, viewers are taken on the most terrifying experience of their lives.

マシロを護る事が出来なかったことを後悔しているアリカは、外出禁止とされ、行方不明のマシロを探しに行けず、もやもやしていた……。一方、ニナとナオはアルタイのベルーハ山に来ていた。前時代の遺跡に手がかりを求めて……。ところが遺跡の中は無数のトラップが仕掛けられていた。果たして二人は無事、遺跡の中枢へたどりつけるのか?!　その頃、マシロは黒い谷から脱出出来ずにいる。三者三様の決意を胸に、新たな事件が起こる……。

Perhaps the most enjoyable Oliveira film I've watched so far also proved to be the most frustrating experience (through no fault of the genial Portuguese director, whom I saw at the 2004 Venice Film Festival): unfortunately, the copy shown on late-night Italian TV was of an atrocious quality – with intermittent picture loss, rampant pixellation and considerable stretches where the dialogue was so low and muffled as to be barely audible (thankfully, the movie was presented in its original language accompanied by Italian subtitles), despite the volume of my TV being practically set at its maximum level! The irony is that this was scheduled again on the very same channel just the other week and, had I known of the poor state of my copy, I'd have tried to record it again…though, of course, I would've had no guarantee that they were able get hold of a superior print unless I went through the whole thing over again! 　　Anyway, having seen it, I'm now able to understand how Oliveira felt so completely at home making that Bunuelian tribute BELLE TOUJOURS (2006); in fact, this has much the same aura of elegant surrealism evident in the Spaniard's contemporaneous masterpiece THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (1972), while throughout Oliveira displays an admirably Ophulsian propensity for intricately mobile camera-work. The premise is original and quite delightful: a woman has lost a husband and remarried; she used to despise the former but, now, she realizes how much she actually loved him and, consequently, starts to neglect Spouse No. 2. Also, the first husband had an identical twin brother – so the wife feels closer to him than her current husband; the latter, humiliated by this awkward situation, commits suicide! Then, the sibling of the deceased confesses that he's actually the man she married and that it was his twin who had died (he just had the inexplicable urge to exchange identities with him!); so, the ex-bride and groom go to court to make their re-union legal…except that, by this time, it dawns on her that Husband No. 2 is the one she truly loves! 　　Amid all this, their close circle of friends try to make head or tails of the woman's whims and quirks; further complications, however, arise out of the subplot involving a man who makes passes at two of the women (one's married, the other happily cohabiting with her divorced ex!). The latter turns him down flat, while his affair with the former proves no less volatile than the leading lady's roundabout ways; the man, then, deliberately picks a fight with his lover's husband – who had earlier also exchanged harsh words with the heroine's cynical second husband. Though lacking perhaps the cheerful mockery that Bunuel managed to bring to this essentially staid environment (even if the Mendelssohn score still lends it undeniable irony), Oliveira's script is both intelligent and witty – to which his small cast of unknown actors (to me, at least) respond extremely well. These extend to even the minor roles of butler and maid: apart from indulging in their own romantic dalliances from time to time, the butler is visibly annoyed in having to attend to the mansion's gates after every vehicle that calls at the premises (in fact, apart from a brief flashback and the church finale, we're virtually stuck on the grounds of this single location). He also witnesses the second husband's fatal leap from the window as well as the wife's escape from the very same room (in which she's been locked by Spouse No. 1 after her passion for his replacement is re-ignited), while the maid has no qualms about spying on her masters' violent squabbles through a keyhole. 　　The ironic ending sees all concerned attending the wedding ceremony of a young bride and groom – with the central couple entering the church together but then taking separate seats away from one another because of lack of room; the emphasis placed on the newlyweds' promises of lifelong devotion obviously ring hollow at this point while, seemingly on a whim, Oliveira decides to end the film on an amusing shot of the church organist (sporting the somewhat clichéd unkempt appearance of the typical musicologist). It should be said here that PAST AND PRESENT is the first entry in the director's so-called "Tetralogy Of Frustrated Love" along with BENILDE OR THE VIRGIN MOTHER (1975), the five-hour TV serial DOOMED LOVE (1979) – both of which I own and intend to check out presently, as part of my ongoing retrospective honoring Oliveira's 100th birthday next month – and the as-yet unavailable FRANCISCA (1981).

本作は、東京の片隅で暮らす同級生たちの10年間を描くヒューマンドラマ。心が折れて以来立ち直り方を忘れていた主人公・妙子が、精神的にも生活においても依存していた彼氏・コタロウとの関係の変化をきっかけに、自身の心と対峙することになるさまが映し出される。

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昔日香港，長者知得最清楚！最佳嘅掌故王，當然係喺社區土生土長嘅老友記。睇住社區變化嘅資深居民帶領，向廿幾歲嘅年輕人，大談後生仔女意想不到嘅地區老故事。鰂魚涌山邊原來曾經有吊車上栢架山？灣仔大佛口以前係日本人社區？睇落保留傳統風味嘅大澳又有幾多嘢真係無變？唔同嘅老友記，有老街坊、有導賞團義工、有歷史發燒友，帶年輕主持行街 (或坐低慢慢傾)，同觀眾一齊話當年。