本片围绕着四个角色进行。晚上离开妻儿出门的卢悉奥(Luisinho)和刚结束一段感情生活的纳尔逊(Nelson)驾驶着汽车四处寻乐,以此打发晚上的空虚和无聊。几经周折之后他们找了两名三陪女子回到房间。整个夜晚四个人之间的关系不断发生微妙变化。该片前75分钟全部为夜景,配以略带诡异感觉的钢琴曲,整部作品偏现代。
沃尔特·雨果·克霍里(Walter Hugo Khouri)(1929.10.21-2003.6.27)号称是巴西电影界的伯格曼,《空洞的夜》(1964)《燃烧的躯体》(1966)和《好色之徒》(1968)是他的人性三部曲,在他的影片中充满着存在主义的疑问、角色复杂内心的独白和现代主义的电影语言。本片是向安东尼奥尼《蚀》的致敬之作,入围了1965年法国戛纳电影节,是一部精致的巴西新浪潮艺术电影。
Synopsis
A sudden gunshot destroys the dream of two lovers. The fate of Orpheus and Eurydice is a cruel one. On their wedding day, her soul is kidnapped and taken down into the Netherworld. Under a metaphysical sky Charon, the taxi driver, waits for the crime to be committed.
COMMENTARY
The movie is an opera-musical with an immersive and transmedial language. The myth is transposed into the contemporary age: Charon is a taxi driver and we go from Paris half under water to the stage of the Teatro Regio in Turin, in a play of musical references that range from Puccini to Händel, from Verdi to Gluck, from Vivaldi to Frankie Goes to Hollywood. And the images fuse words, lyric opera, fashion and the visual arts, between the real and the virtual.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
We created an unexpected encounter between acting and lyric opera, between pop, special effects and images filled with symbolism. Bringing into a cast of extraordinary actors such as Vincent Cassel, Fanny Ardant and Rossy De Palma two young artists selected among hundreds of lyric opera singers: Valentino Buzza and Mariam Battistelli.