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.

张英雄（王锵 饰）从小就生活在父母的溺爱之中，性格难免有些软弱。某日，张英雄的父亲张肃清（姚培德 饰）在和政府拆迁办的工作人员陆志强（许江宁 饰）的争吵中突发心梗去世了。无奈之下，母亲带着张英雄搬进了舅舅家中，过起了寄人篱下的生活，舅舅和舅妈对待他们的态度并不算客气，这让张英雄的心理更加不平衡了，他决定找陆志强报仇。张英雄搬出了舅舅家，在一家小店里当起了服务生，从这家店看出去刚好能够看到陆志强的家，张英雄就此认识了陆志强的女儿陆珊珊（周冬雨 饰）。陆珊珊是一个有着轻微智障的女孩，她的单纯和善良慢慢的消解了张英雄内心里的仇恨，他发现自己竟然爱上了她。

送进洗衣店的衣服再肮葬，离开时总洁白如新。但人生呢？更生人阿杰假释出狱，洗衣店是他人生的新一站，洗衣店老板的姪女小绮则患有小儿痲痺，他们其中一个被困在身体裡，另一个总无法忘记过去，除了呼吸的自由，他们将拥有什麽？

杜天明（张学友 饰）是国际慈善机构香港分部的总干事，同时也是一位非常虔诚的基督教徒，凭借着出色的口才，杜天明经常在教堂里传教，深受信徒们的喜爱和信赖，其社会地位可以用德高望重来形容。某日，机构里来了一位名叫蜜雪儿（林嘉欣 饰）的女助理，蜜雪儿被杜天明所散发出的成熟气质深深的吸引了，两人之间的距离越来越近，但碍于身份和社会地位，杜天明并不敢对蜜雪儿有任何的非分之想。杜天明即将被调到英国，出任亚洲区的总干事一职，临行前，他决定和蜜雪儿来一场“最后的晚餐”，哪知道当晚气氛实在太好，在车里，杜天明终究是没有抵挡得了人性的诱惑，做出了之后改变了他一生的决定。