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厌倦了大都会的奔波忙碌和机械化枯燥无味的生活，自有充满幻想的理绘（原田知世 饰）与温柔体贴的丈夫逃离东京，定居在北海道月浦一个毗邻湖泊的小山丘上。水缟夫妇在此经营一家名叫Máni的面包咖啡店，二人分工做出美味的食品，宴请来往驻足的人们。那一年，伤心的齐藤香织（森カンナ 饰）与始终困在北海道的青年山下时生（平冈佑太 饰）结识，纯纯的情愫悄然而生；沉默的小女孩未久（八木优希 饰）与父亲（光石研 饰）抱持着对母亲的思念，在Máni找到了慰籍；病入膏肓的老妇人和先生来访于此，品味着人生最后的时刻。寒来暑往，爱聚离合，生命之河伴随着咖啡与面包的香气缓缓流淌……

Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake 1965 16mm film 90minsThis was the first attempt to cinematize the works of Irish author James Joyce. Based more on a stage adaptation by Mary Manning than the Joyce novel itself, the film concentrates on Dublin pubkeeper Finnegan (Martin J. Kelly), who while in the throes of inebriation has a vision of his own death. As the bemused Finnegan lies in his coffin, his friends gather for his wake. The "corpse" tries to cut through the keening and platitudes by probing the innermost thoughts of those closest to him. The surprising aspect of this film is that so much of its difficult text works on screen--a tribute to the loving care of scripter/director/ editor Mary Ellen Bute, who, while preparing this film spent her waking hours picking the brains and burrowing through the resource materials of the James Joyce Society.Although director Mary Ellen Bute’s highly regarded Finnegans Wake (aka Passages from Finnegans Wake) is a unique film that is likely to baffle anyone unfamiliar with James Joyce, it cannot be dismissed merely as a literary exercise. The director was right in claiming that her film was “not a translation of the book but a reaction to it”. It is actually based on a stage play by Mary Manning, who was also responsible for the screenplay. Joyce’s elliptical rhetoric and intricate punning, which might be considered a formidable barrier to the filming of this most opaque of his works, proved to be an attraction to Bute, whose enthusiasm for the ‘visual’ and ‘kinetic’ quality of his language led her to the surprising but well-judged move of running subtitles from the original text to support the dialogue.Visual music pioneer Mary Ellen Bute's final film was also her first feature film. James Joyce's classic story of Irish tavern-keeper who dreams of attending his own wake is brought to the screen with a sparkling energy which highlights its maker's career-long exploration of kinetic abstract animation. Perhaps best described as a 'film poem,' Passages from Finnegans Wake was the first attempt to 'cinematize' the works of James Joyce, featuring the author's highly original language spoken by characters and presented as text on screen.

空寂无人的旷野，安静的铁路桥梁中央，作者形容憔悴、万念俱灰的汤姆，他双爪托腮，浑身绵软无力，两只眼睛充满血丝。铁路上方的横梁上，站着他一生的死对头，同时也是毕生的挚友杰瑞。杰瑞望着一心求死的汤姆，脸上写满了无助。这一切都是爱情惹的祸，原本汤姆和杰瑞拥有快乐无忧的日子，但是随着性感母猫普丝的出现，汤姆的灵魂便被对方俘获了，他展开狂热的爱情攻势，可是黑猫布奇有钱有势，汤姆在布奇面前就如同小丑一般。没钱的男人（or雄性），注定就没有爱情么？本片由Paul Frees担任画外音，同时也是黑猫布奇（Butch）最后出现的一部短片。

方秀才，胸藏点墨，却无功名志向，每天都只会和几位文友，在小酒馆里，靠着给人题字，过着今朝有酒今朝醉的日子，有一天方秀才在小酒馆无意间看见了街对面的一个买莲花灯的纤纤小姐的背影，从此是魂牵梦萦，只苦于无机会一睹其芳容，一天半夜，方秀才访友回家，恰好遇到了她心心记挂的人儿，于是迫不及待的便一路尾随……