apocalypse now review 电影《现代启示录》英文观后感
Ladies and gentlemen, today I want toceremoniously recommend you a great moviethat towers over everything that has been attempted by an American filmmaker in a very long time.33 years after it was first shown, the 1979 American epic war film Apocalypse Now continues to fascinate scholars, critics and viewers as a cultural phenomenon, a media event rather than simply a Hollywood movie.It is considered to bethe best Vietnam film, at once a noble use of the medium and a tireless expression of the horrorand the national anguish of war.Now let me introduce to you its basic information, the aspects of the Vietnam War it reveals and its profound influence on Americanculture as well as ideology.
Let’s start with its basic information.This 200-minute-long movie Apocalypse Now is a set during the Vietnam War, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall and Martin Sheen. It is a successful adaption ofthe famous book Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, which is an enigmatic story about the cruelties of colonialism in Congo.The central character in the movie is US Army special operationOfficer Captain Benjamin L. Willard ofMACV(Military Assistance Command Vietnam). Hewas sent asan assassin to follow the Nung River into the remote Cambodian jungle, find and 'terminate with extreme prejudice' the US Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, who wasonce considered a model officer and future general butlater went insaneand was commanding his own Montagnard troops inside neutral Cambodia, leading his tribesmen on random genocide missions.
When it comes to the aspects of the Vietnam War it reveals, first comes its condemnation of the atrocity of war. Ladies and gentlemen, question: do you know what the word apocalypse means? The word apocalypse refers to any End Time scenario or to the end of the world in general.Alternately a brilliant and bizarre film, Cappola’s masterpiece Apocalypse Now offers the definitive validation to the old saw, "war is hell." The atrocity of the Vietnam War just indicates the Apocalypse of the world.As Captain Willard approached Kurtz's outpost, he saw the coastline was littered with bodies, severed heads were scattered about the nearby temple that serves as Kurtz's living quarters. The purposeless brutality of the war, the absence of military leadership, and the imagery of machinery destroying naturerepeatedly reflectsthe film’s anti-war theme.
The second aspect of VietnamWar it reveals is the absurd inanities of the American involvement in Vietnam.Willard is drawn to the jungle's primeval mystique and power, only to realize that the horror and savagery lie not in the jungle but within American culture itself. The atrocities and of Kurtz’s camp is in effect the microcosm of the brutalities of the American government.Everything about the Taliban, al-Qaida, the pressures that took American people into Afghanistan and Iraq, the assault on Abbottabad and the deadly troubles that lie ahead are to be found here in Willard's journey.It's the first film to directly excoriate US involvement in the Indochina war. To be sure, inhumane attitudes surfaced on both sides as inevitable consequences of a misunderstood conflict, but Coppola wields a wide brush in painting Americans as either "conspiratorial" or "homicidal," with no one in between.
Finally, Apocalypse now exerts profound influence on American culture and ideology. By using the unique iconography of Vietnam: helicopters, disposable weaponry, rock music, acid drugs, psychedelic sensibility, the film offers a candid, operatic view of America's longest and most tumultuous war. It calls for Americans’philosophical inquiry into the atrocity of war and the absurd dominance of the US government. On the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, Apocalypse Now has a 99% "Certified Fresh" rating, with an Average Rating of an 8.9/10. Also the quote in the movie "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" was number 12 on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes list and has been widely used in TV shows, radios, movies and daily talks.
Ladies and gentlemen, watch this movie and I am sure you will never regret.
英文影视赏析——七宗罪台词
老：Get out of the van! 从车里出来！ Out ! 出来！ 递：Jesus Christ, man. Don’t shoot me. 天哪，老兄。不要开枪。 老：Step away. 离车远点。 Turn around. Put your hands on your head. 转过去，手抱头。 （飞：What the hell is going on? 到底发生了什么？） 老：Why and what are you doing here? 你为什么来这里？ 递：I’m delivering a package man. 我只是送快递而已。 I got a package for this guy, David. 我有个快递要送给戴维。 Detective... 警探 David Mills. 戴维?米尔斯 老：Get it. Slowly. 拿过来。慢一点。 （飞：He’s opening the back of van. 他正在打开火车的后备箱。 We’ve got him in sight. 我们瞄准他了。） 递：This guy paid me ﹩500 to bing it out here, man. 有人出500块让我把它带过来。 He said he wanted it here at exactly 7 o’clock. 他让我在7点钟准时送到。 老：Put it down. 放下来。 We got a box 我们有个盒子。 （飞：We got a box . Call the bomb squad. 有一个盒子，快找拆弹组。 Bomb squad . We got a box . 拆弹组，我们这有个盒子。） 老：Face the van. 面朝货车。 Hands up. 举起手来。 Turn around . 转过来。 Okay. Go. 好的，快走。 Off you go. Go . 快离开这里。快。 I’m sending the driver out on foot . 我让司机跑着离开了。 （飞：He’s headed north, along the road. 他沿着路往北跑了。） 老：Have him picked up . 找人去接他。 Oh, I don’t know . 我不知道。 I’m going to open it. 我要打开它了。 罪：When i said i admire you , i meant what i said . 我说过我很佩服你，我是说真的。——打开箱子—— 老：It’s blood . 是血。 罪：You’ve made quite a life for yourself, Detective. 你有着美满幸福的生活，警探。 You should be very proud. 你应该很自豪。 轻：Shut the fuck up , you piece of shit . 闭上你的狗嘴，混蛋。 老：California, stay away from here . 加州号，不要靠近。 Stay away from here , now . Don’t, don’t , don’t come in here . 离这里远点，不要过来，不要。
Journey to the Center of the Earth(地心游记)2008经典电影英文影评
Journey to the Center of the Earth（地心游记）2008 There is a part of me that will always have affection for a movie like "Journey to the Center of the Earth." It is a small part and steadily shrinking, but once I put on the 3-D glasses and settled in my seat, it started perking up. This is a fairly bad movie, and yet at the same time maybe about as good as it could be. There may not be an 8-year-old alive who would not love it. If I had seen it when I was 8, I would have remembered it with deep affection for all these years, until I saw it again and realized how little I really knew at that age. You are already familiar with the premise, that there is another land inside of our globe. You are familiar because the Jules Verne novel has inspired more than a dozen movies and countless TV productions, including a series, and has been ripped off by such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, who called it Pellucidar, and imagined that the Earth was hollow and there was another world on the inside surface. (You didn't ask, but yes, I own a copy of Tarzan at the Earth's Core with the original dust jacket.) In this version, Brendan Fraser stars as a geologist named Trevor, who defends the memory of his late brother, Max, who believed the center of the Earth could be reached through "volcanic tubes." Max disappeared on a mysterious expedition, which, if it involved volcanic tubes, should have been no surprise to him. Now Trevor has been asked to spend some time with his nephew, Max's son, who is named Sean (Josh Hutcherson). What with one thing and another, wouldn't you know they find themselves in Iceland, and peering down a volcanic tube. They are joined in this enterprise by Hannah (Anita Briem), who they find living in Max's former research headquarters near the volcano he was investigating. Now begins a series of adventures, in which the operative principle is: No matter how frequently or how far they fall, they will land without injury. They fall very frequently, and very far. The first drop lands them at the bottom of a deep cave, from which they cannot possibly climb, but they remain remarkably optimistic: "There must be a way out of here!" Sure enough, they find an abandoned mine shaft and climb aboard three cars of its miniature railway for a scene that will make you swear the filmmakers must have seen "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." Just like in that movie, they hurtle down the tracks at breakneck speeds; they're in three cars, on three more or less parallel tracks, leading you to wonder why three parallel tracks were constructed at great expense and bother, but just when such questions are forming, they have to (1) leap a chasm, (2) jump from one car to another, and (3) crash. It's a funny thing about that little railway: After all these years, it still has lamps hanging over the rails, and the electricity is still on. The problem of lighting an unlit world is solved in the next cave they enter, which is inhabited by cute little birds that glow in the dark. One of them makes friends with Sean, and leads them on to the big attraction -- a world bounded by a great interior sea. This world must be a terrible place to inhabit; it has man-eating and man-strangling plants, its waters harbor giant-fanged fish and fearsome sea snakes that eat them, and on the further shore is a Tyrannosaurus rex. So do the characters despair? Would you despair, if you were trapped miles below the surface in a cave and being chased by its hungry inhabitants? Of course not. There isn't a moment in the movie when anyone seems frightened, not even during a fall straight down for thousands of feet, during which they link hands like sky-divers and carry on a conversation. Trevor gets the ball rolling: "We're still falling!" I mentioned 3-D glasses earlier in the review. Yes, the movie is available in 3-D in "selected theaters." Select those theaters to avoid. With a few exceptions (such as the authentic IMAX process), 3-D remains underwhelming to me -- a distraction, a disappointment and more often than not offering a dingy picture. I guess setting your story inside the Earth is one way to explain why it always seems to need more lighting. The movie is being shown in 2-D in most theaters, and that's how I wish I had seen it. Since there's that part of me with a certain weakness for movies like this, it's possible I would have liked it more. It would have looked brighter and clearer, and the photography wouldn't have been cluttered up with all the leaping and gnashing of teeth. Then I could have appreciated the work of the plucky actors, who do a lot of things right in this movie, of which the most heroic is keeping a straight face. 1
五十九部精典电影对白全部英汉对照
《燃情岁月》Legend of the Fall 《美丽心灵》A Beautiful Mind 《早餐俱乐部》The Breakfast Club 《骄阳似我》Good Will Hunting 《几乎成名》Almost Famous （感兴趣摇滚乐的同学可以找来一看） 《日落之前》Before Sunset (a very smart movie,女主角的英语有点法国味儿) 《阿甘正传》Forrest Gump (发音就别从这里学了) 《我的盛大希腊婚礼》My Big Fat Greek Wedding (很有意思的文化冲突) 《大河恋》A River Runs Through it 《西雅图不眠夜》Sleepless in Seattle 《后妈》（又名《亲亲小妈》）Step Mother 《谈谈情跳跳舞》Shall We Dance 《似是故人来》Sommersby （美国南方口音，了解一下，关键是故事很感人，呵呵） 《当哈里遇见萨莉》When Harry Met Sally 《漂亮女人》Pretty Women 《爱情十日谈》How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days 《爱是妥协》Something's Gotta Give 《天使之城》City of Angel 《时尚女魔头》The Devil Wears Prada 《公主新娘》The Princess Bride 《卡萨布兰卡》Casablanca 《魂断蓝桥》Waterloo Bridge 语言相对较简单：《南极大冒险》Eight Below 《小鬼当家》Home Alone 《公主日记》The Princess Diaries 动画片： 《海底总动员》Finding Nemo 《鲨鱼黑帮》Shark Tale 《怪物史莱克》Shrek 《花木兰》Mulan 《美女与野兽》Beauty and Beast 《冰河世纪》Ice age 《熊的传说》Brother Bear 连续剧： Friends Gilmore girls(我的最爱，哈哈，中译：《吉尔摩女孩》，语速较快，文化背景较深。适合听力口语水平较高，同时对西方文化较了解的同学观看。) the Apprentice 英式发音： 《真爱至上》love actually 《傲慢与偏见》新版Pride and Prejudice 《BJ单身日记》 《英国病人》English Patient 《面纱》The Painted V eil 励志(学习男主人公永不放弃的精神)： 《肖申克的救赎》Shawshank Redemption 《当幸福来敲门》The Pursuit of Happiness <中青网> 美国电影学会于近日评选出了美国电影中的一百句最佳台词，《乱世佳人》的克拉克-盖博口中的“坦白说，亲爱的，我一点也不在乎”荣膺榜首。 评选结果的影片涵盖面十分广泛，最早的可以追溯到1927年的第一步有声片《爵士歌手》，最近的则是2002年的《指环王之双塔骑兵》。其中《乱世佳人》、《卡萨布兰卡》、《绿野仙踪》等经典老片在榜上占据了不止一席之位，而《卡萨布兰卡》凭借6句经典台词居首位。 美国电影学会总监费斯登堡认为，这些经典的电影台词已经成为了美国语言文化的一个组成部分，评选的目的是为了重新激起人们对美国经典电影的热情。以下是从这一百句最佳台词中精选部分台词，英汉对照，以飨读者。（以下的序号是台词的排名号） 1. Frankly，my dear，I don't give a damn.坦白说，亲爱的，我一点也不在乎。（《乱世佳人》1939） 2. I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.我会给他点好处，他无法拒绝。（《教父》1972） 3. Y ou don't understand！Icoulda had class.I coulda been a contender.I could've been somebody，instead of a bum，which is what I am.你根本不能明白！我本可以获得社会地位，我本可以是个竞争者，我本可以是任何有头有脸的人而不是一个毫无价值的游民！（《码头风云》1954） 4. Toto，I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.托托，我想我们再也回不去堪萨斯了。（《绿野仙踪》1939） 5. Here's looking at you，kid.就看你的了，孩子。（《卡萨布兰卡》1942） 6. Go ahead，make my day.来吧，让我也高兴高兴。（《拨云见日》1983） 7. All right，Mr.DeMille，I'm ready for my close－up.好了，德米勒先生，我已经准备好拍摄我的特写镜头了。（《日落大道》1950）
(完整word版)经典电影台词(英文带带翻译)
㈠《Shawshank Redemption肖申克的救赎》 1.You know some birds are not meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. 你知道，有些鸟儿是注定不会被关在牢笼里的，它们的每一片羽毛都闪耀着自由的光辉。 2.There is something inside ,that they can't get to , that they can't touch. That's yours. 那是一种内在的东西, 他们到达不了,也无法触及的,那是你的。 3.Hope is a good thing and maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies. 希望是一个好东西,也许是最好的,好东西是不会消亡的。 4.Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.恐惧让你沦为囚犯。希望可以感受自由。 5.Get busy living or get busy dieing. 要么忙于活着，要么忙于死去。 6.It takes a strong man to save himself, and a great man to save another. 坚强的人只能救赎自己，伟大的人才能拯救他人。 7.forget that there are … place … in the world that are not made out of stone, there is something … inside … that they can not get to … that is hope . 不要忘了，这个世界穿透一切高墙的东西，它就在我们的内心深处，他们无法达到，也接触不到，那就是希望. ㈡《Forrest Gump 阿甘正传》 1.Life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. 生命就像一盒巧克力，结果往往出人意料。 2.Stupid is as stupid does. 蠢人做蠢事，也可理解为傻人有傻福。 3.Miracles happen every day. 奇迹每天都在发生。 4.Jenny and I was like peas and carrots. 我和珍妮形影不离。 5.Have you given any thought to your future? 你有没有为将来打算过呢。 6．You just stay away from me please. 求你离开我。 7．If you are ever in trouble, don't try to be brave, just run, just run away. 你若遇上麻烦，不要逞强，你就跑，远远跑开。 8．It made me look like a duck in water. 它让我如鱼得水。 9．Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do. 死亡是生命的一部分，是我们注定要做的一件事。 10．I was messed up for a long time. 这些年我一塌糊涂。 11．I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidentally―like on a breeze. 我不懂我们是否有着各自的命运，还是只是到处随风飘荡 12.To make each day count. 让每一天都有所值。 ㈢《The Lion King狮子王》 1. Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. 世界上所有的生命都在微妙的平衡中生存。 2. I laugh in the face of danger. 越危险就越合我心意。 3. I'm only brave when I have to be. Being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble. 我只是在必要的时候才会勇敢，勇敢并不代表你要到处闯祸。 4. When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world. 如果这个世界对你不理不睬，你也可以这样对待它。
truman show英文电影赏析提纲(outline)
院系：会计学院班级：财务管理（一）班姓名：赵文增学号：2010052133 Outline： The Truman Show 1. A Brief Account of Its Background 2.The Story 3.What’s Interesting: 3.1.We All Are Always Desperate For Freedom 3.2.Negative Influence From Media 3.3.Measures To Prevent Us Suffering From Media 4.Conclusion
1. A Brief Account of Its Background of The Truman Show The Truman Show was a black comedy directed by Peter Weir, who was born in Australia. The film is released on 1st June,1998,which is acted by Jim Carrey, a famous comedy actor who has been well-known for "The King of Hollywood comedy". 2. The Story of The Truman Show Truman is determined to spare no effort to get over varieties of obstacles set up by Christof, attempting to break away from the dictatorship of Christof after finding himself robbed of freedom,and makes it in the ultimate. 3. What’s Interesting 3.1. Truman,who has been in ignorance of living in a utopia over the span of his lifetime,in which Christof acts exactly like the god.What a folly it is!From my point of view,I perceive our life will be of no meaning when it is beyond our control and almost nobody would like to lead a lifestyle just like a soap opera as Truman’s because we all are always desperate for freedom. 3.2. With the economic globalization,mass media are playing a more and more significant role in every corner across the whole world.However,we are so bombarded with negativity that is important to be aware of the effect that the media has on us at the same time.For instance,there is a probability that citizen’s privacy may be exposed to outside,especially for public figures. 3.3. With so much negative influence from media,then are there any measures that we can adopt to avoid us suffering from media?In my opinion,the most important of all is that we ought to form the ability to distinguish between right and wrong amongst mass media instead of blindly accepting what we hear in the media. 4. Conclusion Notwithstanding that mass media benefit us a lot,we are supposed to make the most use of them rather than rely on them.
Seven(七宗罪)1995经典电影英文影评
Seven(七宗罪)1995 David Fincher's classic tale of inventive serial killing and urban degredation, with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman on excellent form Who'd have thought? An absurd-sounding tale of a serial killer basing his crimes around the seven deadly sins, directed by the man behind the mess that was Alien3, turning out to be one of the most chilling and original thrillers of the 1990s. From the outset, through the film's brilliantly designed deliberate under-lighting - we see very little blood and guts - and muffled sound, the audience is encouraged to lean towards the screen, immerse itself in the film's unbearably grim world. Pitt is in career-making form as Mills, a simple cop moving with his sweet young wife (Paltrow) to a grim, anonymous city, determined to make a difference, to do some good. He is assigned to track down a vengeful killer, and works alongside Somerset (Freeman), a jaded, wise policeman on the verge of retirement. The two are that modern movie cliché -the mismatched pair thrown together by circumstance, who gradually learn mutual respect. But Fincher and Walker take these hackneyed ingredients, play with them in the context of a brilliantly cohesive plot, and present something consistently fresh - the police finding themselves with too much evidence, the premature unmasking of the killer - and very, very dark. 1
经典英文电影台词100句
经典英文电影台词100句 美国电影学会于近日评选出了美国电影中的一百句最佳台词，《乱世佳人》的克拉克·盖博口中的“坦白说，亲爱的，我一点也不在乎”荣膺榜首。评选结果的影片涵盖面十分广泛，最早的可以追溯到1927 年的第一步有声片《爵士歌手》，最近的则是2002年的《指环王之双塔骑兵》。其中《乱世佳人》、《卡萨布兰卡》、《绿野仙踪》等经典老片在榜上占据了不止一席之位，而《卡萨布兰卡》凭借6句经典台词居首位。美国电影学会总监费斯登堡认为，这些经典的电影台词已经成为了美国语言文化的一个组成部分，评选的目的是为了重新激起人们对美国经典电影的热情。 1，Frankly，my dear，I don＇t give a damn. 坦白说，亲爱的，我一点也不在乎。（《乱世佳人》1939） 2，I＇m going to make him an offer he can＇t refuse. 我会给他点好处，他无法拒绝。（《教父》1972） 3，You don＇t understand！Icoulda had class.I coulda been a contender.I could＇ve been somebody，instead of a bum，which is what I am. 你根本不能明白！我本可以获得社会地位，我本可以是个竞争者，我本可以是任何有头有脸的人而不是一个毫无价值的游民！（《码头风云》1954） 4，Toto，I＇ve got a feeling we＇re not in Kansas anymore. 托托，我想我们再也回不去堪萨斯了。（《绿野仙踪》1939） 5，Here＇s looking at you，kid. 就看你的了，孩子。（《卡萨布兰卡》1942） 6，Go ahead，make my day. 来吧，让我也高兴高兴。（《拨云见日》1983） 7，All right，Mr.DeMille，I＇m ready for my close－up. 好了，德米勒先生，我已经准备好拍摄我的特写镜头了。（《日落大道》1950） 8，May the Force be with you. 愿原力与你同在。（《星球大战》1977） 9，Fasten your seatbelts. It＇s going to be a bumpy night. 系紧你的安全带，这将是一个颠簸的夜晚。（《彗星美人》1950）
高考英语阅读素材：经典爱情电影：最感人的台词赏析
经典爱情电影：最感人的台词赏析 Love means never having to say you're sorrry. 爱就是永远不必说对不起。(《爱情故事》) Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.You never know what you're gonna get. 妈妈说生活就像一盒巧克力，你永远都不知道你会得到什么。(《阿甘正传》) There is no crying in baseball. 在棒球运动中没有哭泣！(《红粉联盟》) A boy's best friend is his mother. 一个男孩最好的朋友是他的母亲。(《惊魂记》) Keep your friends close,but your enemies closer. 亲近你的朋友，但更要亲近你的敌人。(《教父》) Listen to them.Children of the night.What music they make. 快点来听!黑夜中孩子的声音是他们缔造的美妙音乐。(《吸血鬼》) Frankly,my dear, I don't give a damn. 坦白的说，亲爱的，我一点也不在乎。(《乱世佳人》) I'm goig to make him an offer he can't refuse. 我会给他点好处，他无法拒绝。(《教父》) Here's looking at you,kid. 就看你的了，孩子。(《卡撒布兰卡>) Go ahead, make my day. 来吧，让我也高兴高兴。(《拨云见日》) There's no place like home.
Tess(苔丝)1979经典电影英文影评
Tess(苔丝)1979 Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, which Roman Polanski has turned into a lovely, lyrical, unexpectedly delicate movie, might at first seem to be the wrong project for Mr. Polanski in every way. As a new biography of the director reports, when Tess was shown at the Cannes Film Festival, the press pointed nastily and repeatedly to the coincidence of Mr. Polanski's having made a film about a young girl's seduction by an older man, while he himself faced criminal charges for a similar offense. This would certainly seem to cast a pall over the project. So would the fact that Hardy's novel is so very deeply rooted in English landscapes, geographical and sociological, while Mr. Polanski was brought up in Poland. Finally, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is so quintessentially Victorian a story that a believable version might seem well out of any contemporary director's reach. But if an elegant, plausible, affecting Tess sounds like more than might have been expected of Mr. Polanski, let's just say he has achieved the impossible. In fact, in the process of adapting his style to suit such a sweeping and vivid novel, he has achieved something very unlike his other work. Without Mr. Polanski's name in the credits, this lush and scenic Tess could even be mistaken for the work of David Lean. In a preface to the later editions of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Mr. Hardy described the work as "an impression, not an argument." Mr. Polanski has taken a similar approach, removing the sting from both the story's morality and its melodrama. Tess Durbeyfield, the hearty country lass whose downfall begins when her father learns he had noble forebears, is sent to charm her rich D'Urberville relations. She learns that they aren't D'Urbervilles after all; instead, they have used their new money to purchase an old name. Tess charms them anyhow, so much that Alec D'Urberville, her imposter cousin, seduces and impregnates her. The seduction, like many of the film's key scenes, is presented in a manner both earthy and discreet. In this case, the action is set in a forest, where a gentle mist arises from the ground and envelops Tess just around the time when she is enveloped by Alec. Alec, as played by Leigh Lawson, is a slightly wooden character, unlike Angel Clare, Tess's later and truer lover, played with supreme radiance by Peter Firth. Long after Tess has borne and buried her illegitimate child, she finds and falls in love with this spirited soul mate. But when she marries Angel Clare and is at last ready to reveal the secret of her past, the story begins hurtling toward its final tragedy. When Tess becomes a murderer, the film offers its one distinctly Polanski-like moment—but even that scene has its fidelity to the novel. A housemaid listening at a door hears a "drip, drip, drip" sound, according to Hardy. Mr. Polanski has simply interpreted this with a typically mischievous flourish. Of all the unlikely strong points of Tess, which opens today for a weeklong engagement at the Baronet and which will reopen next year, the unlikeliest is Nastassja Kinski, who plays the title role. Miss Kinski powerfully resembles the young Ingrid Bergman, and she is altogether ravishing. But she's an odd choice for Tess: not quite vigorous enough, and maybe even too beautiful. She's an actress who can lose her magnetism and mystery if she's given a great deal to do (that was the case in an earlier film called Stay As You Are). But here, Mr. Polanski makes perfect use of her. Instead of a driving force, she becomes an echo of the land and the society around her, more passive than Hardy's Tess but linked just as unmistakably with natural forces. Miss Kinski's Tess has no inner life to speak of. But Mr. Polanski makes her surroundings so expressive that her placidity and reserve work very beautifully. Even at its nearly three-hour running time, Mr. Polanski's Tess cannot hope for anything approaching the range of the novel. But the deletions have been made wisely, and though the story loses some of its resonance it maintains its momentum. There are episodes—like one involving Tess's shabby boots and Mercy Chant, the more respectable girl who expects to marry Angel—that don't make the sense they should, and the action is fragmented at times. That's a small price to pay for the movie's essential rightness, for its congruence with the mood and manner of the novel. Mr. Polanski had to go to Normandy and rebuild Stonehenge to stage his last scene, according to this same biography. As is the case throughout his Tess, the results were worth the trouble. 1