Somewhere in the remote region, the war ends. In the midst of ruined cities and houses in the streets, in rural hamlets, everywhere where people still live, are children who have lost their homes and parents. Abandoned, hungry, and in rags, defenseless and humiliated, they wander through the world. Hunger drives them. Little streams of orphans merge into a river which rushes forward and submerges everything in its path. The children do not know any feeling; they know only the world of their enemies. They fight, steal, struggle for a mouthful of food, and violence is merely a means to get it. A gang led by Cahoun finds a refuge in an abandoned castle and encounters an old composer who has voluntarily retired into solitude from a world of hatred, treason, and crime. How can they find a common ground, how can they become mutual friends? The castle becomes their hiding place but possibly it will also be their first home which they may organize and must defend. But even for this, the price will be very high.
To this simple story, the journalist, writer, poet, scriptwriter, movie director, and film theoretician Béla Balázs applied many years of experience. He and the director Géza Radványi created a work which opened a new postwar chapter in Hungarian film. Surprisingly, this film has not lost any of its impact over the years, especially on a profound philosophical level. That is to say, it is not merely a movie about war; it is not important in what location and in what period of time it takes place. It is a story outside of time about the joyless fate of children who pay dearly for the cruel war games of adults.
At the time it was premiered, the movie was enthusiastically received by the critics. The main roles were taken by streetwise boys of a children's group who created their roles improvisationally in close contact with a few professional actors, and in the children's acting their own fresh experience of war's turmoil appears to be reflected. At the same time, their performance fits admirably into the mosaic of a very complex movie language. Balázs's influence revealed itself, above all, in the introductory sequences: an air raid on an amusement park, seen in a montage of dramatic situations evoking the last spasms of war, where, undoubtedly, we discern the influence of classical Soviet cinematography. Shooting, the boy's escape, the locomotive's wheels, the shadows of soldiers with submachine guns, the sound of a whistle—the images are linked together in abrupt sequences in which varying shots and expressive sharp sounds are emphasized. A perfectly planned screenplay avoided all elements of sentimentality, time-worn stereotypes of wronged children, romanticism and cheap simplification. The authors succeeded in bridging the perilous dramatic abyss of the metamorphosis of a children's community. Their telling of the story (the scene of pillaging, the assault on the castle, etc) independently introduced some neorealist elements which, at that time, were being propagated in Italy by De Sica, Rossellini, and other film artists. The rebukes of contemporary critics, who called attention to "formalism for its own sake" have been forgotten. The masterly art of cameraman Barnabás Hegyi gives vitality to the poetic images. His angle shots of the children, his composition of scenes in the castle interior, are a living document of the times, and underline the atmosphere and the characters of the protagonists. The success of the picture was also enhanced by the musical art of composer Dénes Buday who, in tense situations, inserted the theme of the Marseilaise into the movie's structure, as a motive of community unification, as an expression of friendship and the possibility of understanding.
Valahol Europaban is the first significant postwar Hungarian film. It originated in a relaxed atmosphere, replete with joy and euphoria, and it includes these elements in order to demonstrate the strength of humanism, tolerance, and friendship. It represents a general condemnation of war anywhere in the world, in any form.
Lady Gaga的表演方法和奇怪的意大利口音决定了这个故事的视角：它是错乱的、失序的、淡漠的，它让故事失去一个必要的结构、一个客观的历史叙事和一个可靠的情感寄托。这部流水账般的电影没能给这个时代的观众一个新的角度去关注这个家族。它没有任何的情感，更像是一个报道的影像化，带着一种后世阅读历史的理所应当的语气描述去记录它的进展，但所有的探索都没能在影像上找到答案。
这个电影把时尚产业的肤浅鄙陋刻画得淋漓尽致，那些沾不上半点艺术皮毛的排列组合，以及哗众取宠的视觉效果，之所以能受到世人的追捧，归根结底来于这些古老品牌的傲慢与偏见——崇古的傲慢与审美的偏见。它呼吸着工业文明的空气，散发出商业的腐臭。尽管男女主人公的感情生活符合一般规律，没有多少悬念，但人性的演绎依然震撼人心，正因女主人公太平凡太世俗，才使得这场斗争变得异常惊心动魄。
如此恶心，丑陋，傲慢，自大的一个女的居然还会有人喜欢，而且还给她一个获得了最终胜利的那种氛围镜头，要不是最后她尼玛的坐牢了，这部片子还能更难看。有了那个女的的存在真的就感觉其它演员在白费劲一样。
我们真的在滂沱大雨中宣告爱意，我们依然走过教堂，为你带上了戒指。冲破不了世俗，绑架了自己，如果这个世界再宽容些再好一点我们会是HE。
九十年代后香港很少描写校园生活的电影作品（这点与内地、台湾电影对比很明显），而这片讲的则是一所女校里两个女生之间的朦朦胧胧的爱情、友情，整体也比较保守。同类型影片个人更喜欢去年年底台湾的那部《第一次遇见花香的时刻》
光鲜亮丽的流水账，Irons和Pacino还是很厉害的～
刚开始看还是可以的，但是到后面越来越乱。老雷明明可以认真讲古驰家族的兴衰，但是讲的东西实在是太多了，又是婚姻，又是爱情，又是杀夫，又是内斗的，很容易让观众产生疲倦。虽然说这一部老雷水平确实有所下降，不过演员们的演技确实是一大看点。
All for Pacino. 他让我心痛。
有些东西没拍出来，3星多一点，加一份感情分。Lady Gaga演得真棒，Al Pacino 和 Adam Driver 的表演本身也都还是挺好的。
我把你当好朋友，你把我当对象。。。
港女情事。「最后我们都会用一生来怀缅青春。」
片长可以再短些的，Lady Gaga的意大利口音听多了耳朵刺挠，倒是很意外地get到了司机的魅力。
雷老爷子片子中最无趣的一部。哪怕是作为奶粉钱，这个除了时装、配饰、艺术品外没什么亮点的片子被流水账式的剧本拖入了泥潭之中。
断裂开，看不到人物，也看不到关系，感觉像保研生交大四选修课的作业。
九十年代后香港很少描写校园生活的电影作品（这点与内地、台湾电影对比很明显），而这片讲的则是一所女校里两个女生之间的朦朦胧胧的爱情、友情，整体也比较保守。同类型影片个人更喜欢去年年底台湾的那部《第一次遇见花香的时刻》
Gucci品牌和家族的兴衰历史，既能了解历史又能吃瓜。
毛里齐奥的悲剧在于其成为男人的欲望，而帕特里齐亚的悲剧在于其身为女性的事实。无论是哪部电影，雷德利·斯科特总是能够塑造出一个坚强、聪慧、优秀的女性角色，并将所有的矛头对准男权社会下的女性困境。所有的演员都非常成功地立住了自己扮演的角色，特别是Lady Gaga和化妆画的连妈妈都认不出的莱托。但用平铺直叙的方式讲述这个本身没有较大改编空间的真人真事再加上两个半小时左右的时长真的略显平庸和冗长了，反倒是浪费了这个极其有趣的故事，丧失了家庭斗争应有的抓马和残忍......
What can I say, Gaga is everything. 但是这个片子也有点太antagonize patrizia了...好像兄弟相争家庭崩溃都是她在旁边吹耳边风，把maurizio拍得像个白莲花似的...大可不必...
4-…太长了是个缺点，但总的来说还不错，有一种很古怪的趣味感，就好比片子里司机哥说他要把gucci做成梵蒂冈加上时尚感（似乎是这句），这个片子也有点这种时空错乱的混搭感，塑料意大利腔的英语挺搞笑，Gaga演的挺好的，但演的最好的还是莱托，不看演员表真的没认出来…
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