这部影片由意大利导演Ermanno Olmi执导，是一出“经验 Vs. 天真”的故事。老夫人是人们对一位居住在一座摇摇欲坠的宅邸内的神秘老太太的称呼。六个学徒厨师被召进这座古堡，充任侍者，协助古堡内的一场盛大晚宴。2007年在北京上海两地的“影像中的意大利”电影展中首映。

二战结束后，思乡心切的大批美军士兵踏上旧金山港即投进久候的亲人的怀抱，但保罗•萨顿（基努•里维斯）久等仍不见其妻子的踪影，夕阳西沉时，他拖着孤单落寞的身躯走回家中，发现妻子早已改变，她的眼里只剩金钱不再有他。

　　Middle-aged banker Arthur Hamilton is given the opportunity to start a completely new life when he receives calls from his old friend Charlie. The only problem is that Charlie is supposed to be dead. Hamilton is eventually introduced to a firm that will fake his death and create an entirely new look and life for him. After undergoing physical reconstruction surgery and months of training and psychotherapy, Hamilton returns to the world in the form of artist Tony Wilson. He has a nice house in Malibu and a manservant, a company employee who is there to assist him with his adjustment. He finds that the life he had hoped for isn't quite what he expected and asks the company to go through the process with surprising results. Written by garykmcd

黛海丝是个爱好文学艺术并希望得到别人肯定和关怀的女郎，她有稳定安逸的生活环境，别人都羡慕不已，但却没人了解她内心的孤独。结果她因为得不到关心而企图毒死丈夫，被控谋杀后却得到人们的同情。丈夫不愿家丑外扬，连同她的父亲恩威并施，终于让她无罪释放，但她却一路回想起自己的生活：结婚的盟约、婚后生活的无聊、父亲的私欲、丈夫的不解风情、倾慕的男孩远走高飞等情节后感到了无生趣。从此丈夫把她当作疯子，她则以烟酒浇愁，越发寂寞痛苦。　　影片取材自法国著名作家、诺贝尔奖得主莫里亚克的文学名著，并由他亲自编剧，《广岛之恋》女主角希娃担纲主演，赢得威尼斯影展的最佳女主角。影片忠实还原了莫里亚克原著的精髓，那种透入心骨的寂寞和痛苦强烈地渗入观众的心灵，文学意味很重，偏重描写人物的内心感受和思想活动，夹杂有倒叙和回忆的表现手法，有当时法国电影左岸派崇尚的意识流痕迹。

　　Siddartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee) is forced to discontinue his medical studies due to unexpected and brutal death of his father. He has to now find a job in stead. In one job interview, he is asked to name the most significant world event in the last ten years. His reply is 'the plain human courage shown by the people of Vietnam', instead of the expected - man landing on moon. The interviewer asks is he is a communist. Needles to say that he does not get the job.　　He reaches a coffee shop where he is offered to work for the communist party. When he does not show any interest the party leader tells him about an opening for a medical representative. To escape from the heat and have a snooze, he goes in to a cinema. As a government propaganda newsreel is being shown before the feature, a bomb explodes in the cinema hall. In the stampede that follows, Siddartha, breaks his watch. He goes to a watchmaker but he cannot afford the repairs.　　Waiting to cross the road, he notices a sexy girl. He drifts back to his days as a medical student in a flashback. The professor is explaining anatomy of female breast. Many flashbacks and dreams occur to Siddartha through the film.　　On his way to hostel, he has an encounter with some hippies. Along with an ex-classmate, he goes out to see a porn film but to their disappointment, the film turns out to be not-so-pornographic.　　In such constant wandering in a Calcutta, disintegrated relationships with his sister and a Naxalite (militant communist) brother, his friendship with Keya is only thing that keeps him sane.　　Keya is a simple girl. They enjoy each other's company but they cannot make any commitment to each other due to the circumstances.　　After yet another attempt at a job interview, Siddartha leaves the big city to take a modest job of a salesman in a far off small town. He writes to Keya that he still cherishes their relationship. And that he has heard that bird call again but this time it is for real, and not his mind. After completing the letter, he comes out to the balcony of his modest room. The bird calls again. He also hears the sombre chants of a funeral procession. As he turns to the camera, the picture is frozen.　　This is the first film of the Calcutta Trilogy. The other two were and Seemabaddha (Company Limited, 1971) and Jana Aranya (The Middle Man, 1975). All the three films study the effect the big city of Calcutta has on the educated youth and the price it extracts from them.　　The seventies were a difficult period for India and West Bengal. The Corruption was rampant; the Naxalite movement had created havoc in Calcutta. In fact, they had turned parts of Calcutta into 'liberated zones'. By the time the Naxalite movement died down, in 1975, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (then, Prime Minister of India) suppressed the fundamental rights and declared "Emergency" for her own political survival. Her son, Sanjay Gandhi became a dictator of sorts without any official designation. The opposition leaders were thrown into prisons.　　About his social responsibilities as a filmmaker, in an interview with Cineaste magazine, Ray commented, "You can see my attitude in The Adversary where you have two brothers. The younger brother is a Naxalite. There is no doubt that the elder brother admires the younger brother for his bravery and convictions. The film is not ambiguous about that. As a filmmaker, however, I was more interested in the elder brother because he is the vacillating character. As a psychological entity, as a human being with doubts, he is a more interesting character to me. The younger brother has already identified himself with a cause. That makes him part of a total attitude and makes him unimportant. The Naxalite movement takes over. He, as a person, becomes insignificant."　　In a letter to Seton in 1970, Ray wrote that Pratidwandi was the most provocative film he had made till then. The film is said to have evoked extreme reactions. "People either loved the film or hated it", Dhritiman Chatterjee told Andrew Robinson, Ray's biographer.

凯蒂扮演的音乐评论家，是一位老钢琴家(帕特里克饰)的精神支柱。在她不幸离世后，钢琴家来到瑞士，完成了精神的救赎。

　　《局外人》是说一个在阿尔及利亚的法裔小职员，孤独内向，不善与人沟通，而且周围也没有人关心他。他对社会的一切事情漠不关心，甚至母亲的去世也没有让他过于伤感。后来他不慎枪杀一个流氓，却第一次引起了社会对他的关注，法庭也以他在母亲的葬礼的表现、平日生活的行为等等推断他本质顽劣。他不接受神父的告解，却对自己的生死有着肯定的看法。现实生活的荒谬，使得这个小职员成为一个无意中与法律和传统习俗格格不入的局外人。

　　汉克（弗雷德里克·福瑞斯特 Frederic Forrest 饰）是一名成天跟破旧汽车打交道的机械修理师，弗兰妮（特瑞·加尔 Teri Garr 饰）则在旅行社工作，两人成为情侣一起生活已经五年了，彼此之间的感情十分要好。然而，在五周年纪念日当晚，汉克和弗兰妮却发生了激烈的争吵，冲动之下，两人决定分手。　　之后，汉克邂逅了名为莉拉（娜塔莎·金斯基 Nastassja Kinski 饰）的马戏团女郎，两人之间碰撞出了激情的火花。与此同时，弗兰妮亦结识了风度翩翩英俊潇洒的雷（劳尔·朱力亚 Raul Julia 饰）。然而，直到他们真正开始尝试着发展另一段关系时才发现，原来彼此才是他们命中注定的那个人。

　　A woman in a traffic jam desperately tries to help another woman she sees in the back of a van hold held by a hand that appears from the dark background of the vehicle.

恰鲁拉达（Madhabi Mukherjee 饰）和丈夫结婚了，然而，令她没有想到的是，等待着自己的并非充满了幸福和快乐的婚姻生活。恰鲁拉达的丈夫是一名知识分子，虽然饱读诗书，但他选择将全部的精力投入到研究政治刊物之中，在他的思维里，妻子只需要料理好家事即可，并不需要自己的陪伴和理解。　　随着时间的推移，恰鲁拉达和丈夫之间的关系越来越冷淡，她终日生活在孤独之中，内心里非常的苦闷。就在这个节骨眼上，丈夫的堂兄走近了恰鲁拉达的生活，他是一位热情洋溢的诗人，对生活充满了憧憬，在他的影响下，恰鲁拉达渐渐走出了忧郁，并且明白了如何追求心中的梦想。