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...

哈姆迪（吉姆·贝鲁什 Jim Belushi 饰）和妻子金妮（凯特·温丝莱特 Kate Winslet 饰）一起在游乐场生活和工作，金妮有过一段婚姻，两人共同抚养着金妮和前夫所生的孩子。一天，哈姆迪的女儿卡洛琳娜（朱诺·坦普尔 Juno Temple 饰）找到了父亲，她曾经执意嫁给黑帮大佬，如今正在遭受黑帮的追杀。 　　虽然女儿从前的所作所为令哈姆迪十分生气，但卡洛琳娜的浪子回头显然让哈姆迪开始想要修复这段破碎的父女关系。与此同时，金妮邂逅了海滩救生员米奇（贾斯汀·汀布莱克 Justin Timberlake 饰），两人之间碰撞出了爱情的火花。金妮想要抛弃一切同米奇在一起，然而，在看到了卡洛琳娜之后，米奇不可自持的移情别恋了。

The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich; his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.

A vice inspector for the Paris police takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky whom he considers to be more victim than criminal.

　　本片和特吕弗的《四百击》同被誉为法国电影新浪潮的开山之作。　　身无分文的街头混混米歇尔（让-保罗•贝尔蒙多）从马赛偷了一辆小汽车，驶往巴黎的路上，他因超速行驶被警察逮住，为了脱身，他开枪打死一名警察，来到巴黎后，他躲进当记者的女友帕特丽夏（Jean Seberg）处（躲避警方的通缉之外，他还想方设法讨回一笔卖车赚来的钱）。帕特丽夏去报社时，遇到警长，对方要她一有米歇尔的消息就打电话相告。对米歇尔，帕特丽夏心态复杂，一面深深为他对一切都无所谓的劲儿着迷，一面却嫌弃他太吊儿郎当。