This dark story of lies, intrigue, plots and counterplots deals with Nazism and Hollywood, with adoption, with child abuse, with the anti-war movement of the 1960s, with the ballet world, and with official criminality.
In 1947, a young woman travelled from Holland to London and went through a pregnancy in secret, living and working amid a ballet company. Two years later, in 1949, she began an acting career and gave her child away to another young actress on the London stage. The mother was Audrey Hepburn, and in a few years she was famous. Her son, meanwhile, had been taken to America by his English adoptive mother and her husband, a U.S. military pilot who was stationed in England. He grew up in secrecy in Maryland. He was named Stuart Byczynski, and this book is about Audrey's life, her son's birth and adoption, and Audrey's conflicted and menacing behavior toward him.
Not a photo book, this work explores the dark side of Audrey Hepburn's career, revealing new information about her and correcting some of the misinformation in the existing literature.
To make her career in films, Audrey had to suppress any information that she had had a child, as well as her family ties to the Third Reich during WWII. She interfered with the author and arranged for minor Hollywood people to enter his life as acquaintances in order to gather information. In her final years, in the aftermath of the publicity about Joan Crawford's parenting, Audrey did volunteer work for Unicef, perhaps out of guilt over her own abandoned child, but more likely to polish her public image. This book is the kind of thing Audrey dreaded, and it was originally intended for publication while she was alive.
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我得说,这部作品在人物塑造上的功力深厚得令人咋舌,它成功地跳脱了“符号化”的窠臼,没有将主角简单地塑造成一个完美的、高高在上的偶像,而是赋予了她极强的立体感和真实的人性弱点。你看她处理那些日常琐事时的笨拙与笨拙中透出的天真,那种反差感极具魅力。更令人惊喜的是配角的刻画,即便是出场时间不多的角色,也拥有着清晰的动机和鲜明的性格烙印,他们如同精准的齿轮,推动着剧情朝着更深层次的矛盾发展,而不是沦为主角光环的陪衬。剧本的对话设计尤其值得称赞,既有那个年代特有的含蓄和机锋,又能在关键时刻迸发出直击人心的力量,那些台词精炼到每一个字都像是被锤炼过的黄金,掷地有声却又不失美感。整个故事架构就像一个精密的钟表,每一个齿轮的咬合都恰到好处,推动着情感的张力层层递进,让人在欣赏其艺术性的同时,也被故事本身深深吸引。
评分我本以为这会是一部沉闷的历史回顾录,毕竟主题似乎有些严肃和高冷,但事实证明,这部电影的生命力远超我的想象。它最成功的地方在于,它将宏大的时代背景巧妙地“微缩”到了几个核心人物的情感互动之中,让你在关注个体命运的同时,也能感受到时代洪流的无可抗拒。摄影师的功力实在令人佩服,那种低饱和度的色彩运用,仿佛给整个世界蒙上了一层复古的滤镜,既有历史的厚重感,又不失唯美的视觉享受。特别是对室内空间的捕捉,光线总是能找到最富戏剧性的角度,将人物的内心世界投射到墙壁和家具的阴影之中,使得空间本身也成为了一个无声的叙事者。整部影片的节奏是舒缓的,它要求观众放慢呼吸,去细细品味每一个画面的构图和层次,对于习惯了快节奏爆米花电影的观众来说,这可能需要一点适应,但一旦进入状态,收获的将是巨大的审美愉悦。
评分说实话,初看时我略有些担心它会流于形式主义的空洞,毕竟这种对黄金时代美学的致敬作品,很容易陷入对过去的盲目崇拜而忽略了叙事本身。然而,导演的掌控力非同一般,他深知如何平衡“形式”与“内容”的张力。影片中对于特定场景的调度,那简直是一场视觉盛宴,比如那场雨夜中的独舞,镜头运动如行云流水,既展现了人物的孤独感,又将环境的压抑氛围烘托到了极致。音效设计也是加分项,背景音乐的选择极其考究,古典与现代的交织恰到好处,从不喧宾夺主,只是潜藏在画面之下,默默地加强着情绪的渲染。更难得的是,影片在探讨“自我实现”与“社会期望”的冲突时,处理得非常克制和成熟,没有陷入廉价的煽情,而是通过一系列微妙的眼神交流和肢体语言,将那种内心的挣扎和最终的和解展现得淋漓尽致。
评分这部电影简直是黑白胶片里走出来的梦境,每一个镜头都仿佛精心打磨过的老照片,散发着旧时光特有的温柔和疏离感。光影的运用达到了出神入化的地步,尤其是在描绘人物内心挣扎的那些近景时,细微的面部肌肉颤动和眼神里的复杂情绪都被镜头捕捉得一清二楚,让人忍不住屏住呼吸去揣摩。叙事节奏的处理非常巧妙,它不是那种直白的、急于把所有信息倾泻而出的作品,而是像一位耐心的说书人,娓娓道来,让你自己去拼凑那些潜藏在优雅外表之下的暗涌。服装和布景的考究程度,更是让人拍案叫绝,那份精致并非流于表面的奢华堆砌,而是对那个特定时代审美情趣的精准复刻,每一个褶皱、每一条线条都讲述着那个时代女性的自我期许与社会规范的拉扯。看完之后,久久不能从那种诗意的氛围中抽离出来,它留给观众的,不是一个明确的答案,而是一连串需要自己去体会的留白和韵味。
评分从纯粹的艺术表达层面来讲,这部影片无疑是近些年来难得一见的佳作。它大胆地采用了非线性叙事结构,但处理得相当流畅自然,几条时间线索的穿插不仅没有造成叙事上的混乱,反而像多棱镜一样,从不同的角度折射出主角心境的复杂多变。最让我印象深刻的是对“沉默”的运用,许多关键性的转折和情感爆发点,都是在绝对的安静中完成的,那份静默比任何激烈的台词都更具穿透力,让观众不得不去倾听自己内心深处的共鸣。布景师对细节的偏执达到了令人发指的地步,那些看似不起眼的道具陈设,背后必然都有着深思熟虑的象征意义,它们共同构建了一个完整而自洽的艺术世界。影片的镜头语言成熟老练,长镜头的使用频率很高,但每一次长镜头的推进,都是一次情感的积累和升华,显示出导演对节奏和情绪掌控的自信,这绝非易事。它不只是在“讲述”一个故事,更像是在“构建”一种体验,一种沉浸式的、让人回味无穷的美学之旅。
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