infinite 综艺

Peter Fonda is a commercial director going through a bitter divorce, so he decides to take an LSD trip...

Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.Structurally inventive, Kusano's daring cinema implements ‘distantiation’ effects to get to the heart of friendship issues at times when life has settled. While the repetitions convey the suffocation of role patterns in both friendship and family, a line left out or added in unsettles and reminds us life can take unexpected turns.

30年代的上海，马丽某年生日收到了表姐送来的一块古董梳妆台，可是表姐已在几年前被她设计迫害自杀了。她的丈夫是著名教授，可是两人年龄差异较大，丈夫有了外遇，对方竟是马丽的表姐，马丽愤怒设计杀死他们，最后自己也在那块镜子前自杀了。90年代的新加坡，律师詹辛为了丰厚的报酬，埋没良心为罪大恶极富家子辩护。他的妻子买来了一块古董梳妆台，每当他在镜前都会发生奇怪的事情。后来他因车祸毁容了，没想到整形医生拆开纱布的一刻他发现，自己的容貌跟富家子被杀害的人的模样。世纪末的香港，兰姨（罗兰饰）含辛茹苦独自带大孙子麦迪（谢霆锋饰），对他无比牵挂。可是孙子带回来洋气女友Ruby（林心如饰）令她很不满意。Ruby得知兰姨身价丰厚，便极力讨好她，杀害兰姨后嫁祸他人，她在新买回来的古董梳妆台中看到了幻觉，自杀身亡。

老顾头（黄宗洛 饰）是个离休的八路军老战士，每日在家含儿弄孙、颐养天年。偶然间，他得知自己战争年代的旧情人陈云花（秦臻 饰）仍活在世上，并热心着公益事业，不由感慨万分。有心和儿子顾小舟（王学圻 饰）倾诉，无奈他天天忙到脚打后脑勺，根本无暇顾及。战争岁月的点点滴滴激发起老顾头对往事的追忆，他不辞而别，去寻访当年的亲人。他的出走打乱了一家原有的平静生活，四处找寻无果，小舟判断父亲去了故乡沂蒙山，随即请假追寻。不辞辛苦来到沂蒙山的老顾头发现，云花已于去年离世，他深感悲痛。在云花的墓前，小舟看到了白发苍苍的父亲......本片于1987年获苏联第十届亚非拉电影节银奖。1989年意大利第十二届萨尔索影视节评委会特别奖。