简介：本片根据米兰·昆德拉的同名小说改编。1968年，布拉格外科手术医生托马斯（丹尼尔·戴-刘易斯 Daniel Day-Lewis 饰）生活在对女人追逐的快乐中，享受着性的快感。画家萨比娜（莉娜·奥琳 Lena Olin 饰）是托马斯的红颜知己，但在一次去温泉疗养院出诊的过程中，托马斯结识了女招待特蕾莎（朱丽叶·比诺什Juliette Binoche 饰）。不久，特蕾莎只身来到布拉格，二人结婚。托马斯在婚后依然不改与萨比娜或其他女人偷情的恶习，特蕾莎无法忍受托马斯的不忠，深夜出走，却碰上苏联武装入侵捷克。三人先后逃亡至瑞士日内瓦，萨比娜认识了当地大学教授弗兰茨（德雷克·德·林特 Derek de Lint 饰），特蕾莎失去工作终日闷闷不乐，带着小狗卡列宁孤身重返布拉格。在自由与束缚之间，托马斯究竟该如何选择呢？本片是1988年美国十佳影片之一，获1989年奥斯卡最佳摄影、最佳改编剧本提名，金球奖最佳剧情片和最佳女配角（莉娜·奥琳）提名，并获英国电影电视协会最佳改编剧本奖，美国影评人协会最佳导演和最佳影片奖。
简介：In the bleak filmscape of glasnost, The Needle stood out as a black sheep of a movie. The most playful and offbeat of the Soviet films of the period, it contrasted sharply to the mainstream, which was overwhelmed with revisionism of the Stalinist past and nihilistic social criticism.Made in 1988 by a young Kazakh director, Rashid Nugmanov, fresh out of VGIK (the national film school), The Needle was a pioneering effort in several ways. Having e from a remote, stagnant republic of Kazakhstan, the picture set off a movement that has e to be known as the quot;Kazakh New Wave.quot; Represented by such works as Alexander Baranov#39;s and Bakhyt Kilibayev#39;s The Three (1988) and Woman of the Day (1990); Kilibayev#39;s The Tick (1990); Baranov#39;s He and She (1990); Abai Karpykov#39;s Little Fish in Love (1989); and Serik Aprymov#39;s The Last Stop (1989), the Kazakh New Wave was for the agonizing Soviet film of the late 1980s what the French New Wave was for the dusty French film of the late 1950s. The Needle was the movement#39;s a bout de souffle. The film also became a model for the Russian version of postmodernism—uninhibited and uninformed, pensating for the lack of culture, skill, and resources with mischief and wit. A young man named Moro (played by Viktor Tsoi, the late rock #39;n#39; roll legend from the St. Petersburg band quot;Kinoquot;) returns to his Asiatic hometown only to find his exgirlfriend, Dina (Marina Smirnova), being a drug addict and himself being involved in the bizarre life of the city#39;s underworld. In an attempt to save Dina, Moro takes her away to the Aral Sea, turned into a barren desert by the time they arrive. There Dina seems cured, but back in town everything starts anew. Almost desperate, Moro decides to fight the drug dealers, led by a hospital doctor (played by another rock #39;n#39; roll star, eccentric leader of the quot;Sound of Muquot; band and the future star of Taxi Blues, Pyotr Mamonov), when one of them stabs him in a deserted park.