30歲的維特在西里西亞的建築設計公司工作，某日接到家裡的來信，敦促他回鄉探望生病的父親。維特的故鄉是在華沙附近的小城鎮，當他抵達時才知道父親只是藉口患病希望他回來承擔家庭責任。但維特討厭他們的生活方式，他的父親是個酒鬼，他的妹妹貝拉是個花癡，他的姑媽髒亂而揮霍，維特要到外地工作來滿足他們的花費。　　雖然距前作《水晶的結構》只有兩年，但波蘭的政局已起了變化。華迪洛．哥穆爾卡已經下台，愛德華．蓋萊克成為共黨第一書記。蓋萊克提出努力提高生活水平的政策，但是未獲得波蘭人的信任。　　影片主題是逃避。維特擺脫家人到另一個城市就業；母親早就逃到國外；父親酗酒；妹妹透過性行為。贊祿西不是一個悲觀主義者，他通過電影建議我們應該努力改善我們的生活和工作，而不是後退，或沉迷於不能實現的幻想。

Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide　　The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport  both in their professional and daily lives  between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps.　　The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial. -Steve Grayson　　my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty. - Jonathan Rosenbaum

The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna.　　The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator,　　the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination.　　Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.

　　故事发生在风景如画的西西里岛，贵族塞法罗男爵（马塞洛·马斯楚安尼 Marcello Mastroianni 饰）是一位没落的贵族，和妻子纱利雅（Margherita Girelli 饰）之间沉闷的婚姻让他感到十分的厌倦，再加上其美艳不可方物的表妹安吉拉（斯蒂芬尼娅·桑德雷莉 Stefania Sandrelli 饰）的不断勾引，塞法罗决心要甩掉纱利雅。可是，离婚在当时的意大利系违法行为，因此，想要从婚姻里脱身，塞法罗男爵只得另觅他径。　　经过塞法罗男爵的种种“努力”，他终于将妻子杀死却只被判了极短的刑期，在铁窗之后，塞法罗男爵幻想着今后幸福生活的种种，心中不禁充满了希冀与兴奋。然而，当自由来临之时，他的生活真的会如同想象的一般美好吗？

电影改编自伊朗女插画家Marjane Satrapi的同名漫画，以自传的形式讲述了自己的成长经历，反映了伊朗的社会变迁。 　　1979年之后，伊朗发起了伊斯兰教革命，社会动荡不安，革命的失败更使伊朗失去民主的希望，日渐保守，人民苦不堪言。九岁的Marjane早熟、敏感，她聪明地瞒过官方爪牙，迷上了西方朋克乐队和流行音乐，沉浸在自己的世界。 　　两伊战争爆发之后，伊朗的生活更加艰难，Marjane渐渐长大，越来越大胆的行为让父母担心不已，她14岁那年，被父母送到了奥地利上学。 　　在奥地利，Marjane身为一个伊朗人，不得不面对别人的歧视和自卑的情绪。当她终于克服了心理障碍，赢得大家认可的时候，爱情的伤痛和对家乡的思念，却使她决定回到父母身边。 　　此时的伊朗，依然经历着战火的洗礼，宗教对妇女生活的限制越发严苛，Marjane开始怀疑自己是否应该在这个充满专制的国度...