quot;Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and JeanMarie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini#39;s book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors#39; Fortnight seriesquot; Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
　　quot;The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear Amid the ruins of this postwar period, the characters build and invent a rapport nbsp;both in their professional and daily lives nbsp;between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political cs
　　The group maintains a #39;register#39;, a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trialquot; Steve Grayson
　　quot;my favorite StraubHuillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini 2001, both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beautyquot; Jonathan Rosenbaum

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　　伊凡尼一家顿时陷入了一篇黑暗当中母亲终日以泪洗脸姐姐艾琳压抑着痛苦照顾悲伤的父母而父亲更是因为过度悲痛而不能继续工作而儿子空空如也的房间深深刺痛了每个家人的心
　　远方寄来一个女孩子的来信来信成全了家人对儿子的追思并令到这个家庭重新有了一丝生机然而逝者如斯各人内心的伤痛只有时间能慢慢治疗

　　一个曾经丧失人性的刑讯逼供者在几十年之后接受电台记者的采访重新回忆自己那段罪孽深重的过去他以前拷问别人,现在却接受这个记者的拷问在这个下午,拷问的不仅仅是他本人,也拷问了人性,拷问了整个社会制度