瓯江影城

IN SHANGHAIIn Shanghai Lou Ye, 2001short FilmIn Shanghai or the eyes of a Chinese director of his city, Shanghai, Communist economic center , but also megalopolis with many faces ...Lou Ye is a great filmmaker. After having the success that we know for the sublime Suzhou River, the young director of the sixth generation is coupled to the design of this short film about Shanghai, the city of his heart , beautiful and multicultural . Camera in hand ( for lovers is a Sony DSR- PD150 DVCam ... ) for subjective , Lou Ye rhyme begins this urban plan by a girl asleep on a bed. Slowly the camera moves out of the suburb where this unknown young woman is given the arms of Morpheus , better visit this city that is Shanghai. The narrator who is also the hero says in voice-over that he loves this megalopolis . It focuses on the residents of these neighborhoods without cloth and without resources where most of the native population of Shanghai Lodge . Indeed the streets Zongshan Donglu which contains the Bund, Pudong, the famous Oriental Pearl is not the stock market and everyone. We must go farther Jingan District to discover the social wealth of this city . Why attach immense cold and nervous architectures while the Shanghai Blood flows through the veins of its rural ? It's a little message Lou Ye through this short film ."You can guess who they are, but we can never really know "Lou Ye eradicates a rare cinematic power of this often precarious and old people waiting on the bus every morning to go to work and make the Chinese economy humming .The old streets of the city like the nearby temple Cheung Hong Bund to the bank of the Huangpu , the filmmaker does not recognize the city. As if all these steel towers of the 21st century had absorbed the social essence of the " Paris of the East" .Lou Ye then takes us on a visit to the arcades , discos, clubs, dances, flashy locations and disconnected from the reality of ordinary people in the middle of poverty which is near workers and street vendors where people drown their defecation in water by putting the edge of an old tub ... This is a new look for the Western .Finally, after making stops in a dangerous Shanghai streets by night , the hero wakes up in the morning director in a corner near buildings unsafe and fixed on the face of a shy child , concluding : "The only thing that matters is Shanghai . "By these words Mr. Lou Ye, I bear you my esteem .

盖伊（法利·格兰杰 Farley Granger 饰）拥有一段并不幸福的婚姻，他的妻子乔伊斯（凯茜·罗杰斯 Kasey Rogers 饰）是一个水性杨花的浪女，盖伊对妻子的不忠恨之入骨。布鲁诺（罗伯特·沃克 Robert Walker 饰）常年受到专横的父亲安东尼先生（乔纳森·哈勒 Jonathan Hale 饰）的压制，忍无可忍的他逐渐起了杀心。就是这样的两个倒霉男人，他们在一列火车上相遇了。互诉衷肠之后，布鲁诺提出了交换杀人的建议，企图给警方造成无动机的假象。盖伊以为布鲁诺只是开玩笑呢，不置可否，哪知道没过几天，乔伊斯竟然真的死于非命。布鲁诺完成了他的承诺，下面轮到盖伊了。

影片围绕一个来自俄克拉荷马州的美国石油钻井平台钻工比尔(达蒙饰)展开。他不得不前往马赛，拜访他久未谋面却锒铛入狱的女儿(布雷斯林饰)，他的女儿坚称并没有犯下谋杀罪。面对语言的障碍、文化的差异，以及复杂的法律制度，比尔决意孤注一掷拯救他的女儿。而在这个过程中，他与一位当地的女性和她的小女儿建立了友谊，也开始了个人的探索之旅，并获得了更大的归属感。

身为大学讲师的柳贞（李英娜 饰）表面虽然风光，可是她一直受小时候被堂兄强奸的惨痛经历困扰，因此她非常不满意母亲息事宁人的做法。她不相信爱情，也不相信命运，她更有过三次自杀未遂的经验。她即使极不情愿，而她还是在姑妈的安排下到了劳教所去。在里面她认识了因谋杀而被判死刑的润秀（姜东元 饰）。因为同样有被母亲抛弃的命运，同样感到生命的绝望，两人很快放下了戒心，从相知相识到相恋，彼此温暖着，慰藉着对方的心灵。但正当他们爱得激烈，润秀的刑期也即将来临……