Helene Regnier's husband Charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son Michel in a rage. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame Helene for their son's condition and vow to win custody of Michel. While the boy is in hospital, Helene rents a room in a boarding house nearby. The Regniers hire Paul Thomas, a family acquaintance who needs money,...
This black comedy is based on the dastardly deeds of French serial killer Henri-Desire Landru, who wined, dined, scammed, and dismembered over 10 women during WW I. He obtained his victims by placing ads in the Personals section of the paper. He then chose wealthy dowagers in their fifties. First he would woo them to his villa. Then he would con them into forking over their for...
Mike Ribble was once a great trapeze artist - and the only to have completed a triple somersault - before his accident. Tino joins the circus, and manages to covince Mike to teach him the 'triple'. Meanwhile Lola, a tumbler, wants to get in on the act. Written by Colin Tinto {cst@imdb.com}
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Tino Orsini has learned the trapeze from hi...
费德勒(斯蒂芬妮·奥德安 Stéphane Audran 饰)是一位非常富有的女人,可是,富足的生活给她带来的,确实异常空虚的精神世界,每一天,她就在想方设法的找各种的乐子,来刺激自己的神经。一天,费德勒在街头邂逅了卖艺的少女槐(雅克利娜·萨萨尔 Jacqueline Sassard 饰),特立独行身怀绝技的槐深深的吸引了费德勒的注意,于是,她将槐带回了家中豢养了起来。
之后,槐邂逅了名叫保罗(让·路易·特兰蒂尼昂 Jean-Louis Trintignant 饰)的花花公子,两人之间碰撞出了激情的火花,这让费德勒感到非常的嫉妒,可在破坏两人感情的过程中,费德勒发现自己竟然也被保罗吸引了。
愤怒、嫉妒、暴食、好色、懒惰、虚荣、小气,这七宗罪历来被很多国家电影人搬上银幕,最新的也许是那个美国版本,而最经典的,可能就是这部1962年的集锦片了。当时,法国新浪潮的旗帜刚刚举起,很多新晋导演还没能够充分展示自己的实力,这样一部集合众多人才的短片集锦无疑是向观众、也是向制片人展示自己的最好机会。
每个故事都紧扣主题,或者夸张或者讽刺或者幽默或者绝望,七个简单的名词,使影片先有了一半的戏剧性,接下来就要看导演的风格、兴趣和功力了。大概是出于商业目的,影片中大部分都是喜剧性的小故事,最夸张的莫过于由欧洲现代戏剧大师尤内斯库编剧、协助导演的“愤怒”故事,各种夸张笑话都集合在这部导演明星荟萃的超级大拼盘里。