Description: NY TIMES REVIEW
JEAN-PIERRE GORIN, its French-born director, describes ''Routine Pleasures'' as a film essay about ''America - under-budget and in a shoe box,'' which is accurate as far as it goes.
The film is also a funny, very personal meditation on the activities of a group of model-railroad buffs in Del Mar, Calif., crosscut with random examples of the wit and ...
Jean-Pierre Gorin's gripping and unique film about Samoan street gangs in Long Beach, California, is, like other works by the filmmaker, a probing look at a closed community with its own rules, rituals, and language.
Casual video footage from Del Mar Beach, San Diego, of Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Tom Luddy, Alice Waters, Wim Wenders, and Heiner Müller, swimming, eating, and smoking, with Schneider’s wonderfully droll narration. With a newly recorded audio introduction by Schneider.
A free interpretation of the trial of the Chicago Eight where Judge Hoffman, now Judge Himmler, scribbles his notes on Playboys, where the defendants portray figures of the French Revolution and where Godard and Gorin, playing Lenin and Karl Rosa, discuss politics and cinema.
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影片涉及的是一对从事传媒业的知识分子的感情生活和发生在1972年五月的一家香肠制造厂的罢工事件，他们和工厂经理一起被工人堵在办公室里两天两夜。在影片中，我们看到和听到经理、***工会代表、"新左翼"领导人、普通工人讲述他们的见解；看到工厂的作业流程；看到蒙当拍摄广告的工作，听到他讲述自己从68年起的经历和失落；看到方达作为美国广播公司驻法国代表的播音工作，也听到她的失败和烦躁；看到青年激进分子的一次超市抢劫和警察的暴力镇压；看到法国社会各阶层的"标准像"；也看到蒙当和方达共同生活中的争吵与困境。甚至他们的爱情生活也构成了时代的转喻：二人相识相爱于68年五月时对一次罢工的参与，又在72年五月的这次罢工中发现个人生活的破裂。总的来说，这是在"六十年代之终结"之后的西方社会中，对知识分子的个人生活和时代社会的整体状况的一次双重书写，是对参与的无能和表达与再...
