Karel

斯大林格勒战役是二次大战中，德国遭到史无前例的惨败一役，也是欧洲战场的一个重大转折点。苏联红军用自己的肉身挡住了德国炮弹和飞机的轰炸。影片在描写战役的同时，企图探讨两个受害人因战争改变命运的经过。 1942年，几个很普通的德军士兵从温暖的海滨随部队调往斯大林格勒前线，很快他们就被残酷的战火吞没了。随着冬天的来临严寒成了比战斗更可怕的东西。在冰天雪地里他们想的不是如何作战，而是如何活下去。每天都有上千德国士兵死亡。德军的溃败就像一场大灾难，士兵们一个个死去，最后的两个人在幻想着回乡的温暖中冻死在了白色的冰面上。

故事发生在不久的将来，人工智能风靡一时，自然发展成为遥远的记忆。纽约一对夫妻瑞秋和阿尔维准备将关系发展到下一个阶段，组建一个家庭。　　瑞秋的工作让他们有机会使用科技巨头帕伽索斯公司开发的一种新工具——通过可拆卸的人造子宫，或着叫“卵舱”，让夫妻们有机会在更平等的基础上共享怀孕。　　阿尔维是一名植物学家兼虔诚的纯粹主义者，对此方法表示怀疑，但他对瑞秋的爱促使其放手一搏，两人在这个勇敢新世界里，开始了为人父母的疯狂旅程。

In small czech town named Jilemnice live unfortunate, but brave and jovial woman Štěpa Kiliánová, whose only desire was to fill the void in her virgin life. In despair and excessive trust, she married a sardonic, reclusive man, former lieutenant and gambler Pavel Malina, whose only wish was finally found peace and forgetting the past. They lived through unrequited love, dislike and disappointment. But no one knew that her groom begin to show signs of cerebral disease, which in the coming years engulf his sanity.

一直作為米路斯．科曼劇本鐵三角（另一位是帕培錫，也是本片編劇之一）成員的艾雲．巴薩，當然也走低度戲劇路線。同是音樂家的彼德與卡洛老友重逢，生活狀況大不同，你有伴侶我有家庭，然而都有說不出的不明朗，唯有以酒與音樂代替口水。全片推展不問目的，只在剎那間的意圖，行行企企比起科曼更義無反顧，卻有生活淡如流水的詩意和繆思，叫觀眾聯想到二十年後的伊力．盧馬。巴薩鍾愛音樂的程度不下於文字和電影，古典音樂與民間音樂於全片迴轉迴盪，難怪成了奇斯洛夫斯基十大心愛電影之一。　　　　康城影展青年評審團獎，美國全國影評人協會特別獎　　　　這部1966年的珍品，是捷克新浪潮短暫生命中最佳作品之一。成名音樂家到小鎮探訪舊同學，舊同學是個窮音樂教師，有時在喪禮上吹奏樂曲。平凡的素材在巴素手裡，變出風趣復罕見的旋律，一部憂鬱的喜劇，或灰色喜劇。　　　　- Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader　　　　Ivan Passer's (Cutter's Way and Creator) last film to be made in his native Czechoslovakia is about friends – musician Petr and music teacher Karel – reunited when Petr returns to town for a performance. Passer frequently collaborated with Milos Forman and the episodic, low-action aesthetic that was evident in Forman's early work can be seen here. Years of separation have bred apprehension between the two men, and Karel's simmering jealousy makes their meeting all the more awkward. Eventually, the barriers crumble enough for the pair to freely discuss their lives. The film's simple beauty is in the details of the men's reacquainting themselves with each other, discovering each other's regrets and unfulfilled desires. Alive with pathos, humour and insight.　　　　Special Award, National Society of Film Critics Awards　　　　Its simple city mouse-country mouse story involves the meeting of two former schoolmates as they prepare for a small-town concert. Enlivened by Passer's flair for grotesquerie, this unassuming masterpiece maintains a delicate balance between hilarity and despair.　　　　- Elliott Stein, Village Voice　　　　Source HKIFF Czech New Wave 2006