她的名字叫花（任潔），追隨北京認識的法國男友來到花都巴黎，因為情已逝被甩，一個28歲的中國女人能在巴黎做什麼呢？花邂逅了25歲的市場搬運工馬蒂歐（Tahar Rahim），應該很浪漫的異國姐弟戀，卻從第一次約會強暴中開始。花就這麼從一位中國留法知識份子，墮落為滿身傷痕的天生婊子。愛慾、暴力、殘酷與虛耗代替了咖啡館、塞納河、戀人絮語與埃菲爾鐵塔。在這「愛如行雲，性如流水」的世界裡，婁燁在旅法女作家劉捷的同名小說《花》中，讀到了「一種內在深處的妖艷」，北京巴黎之間、中法文化之間、知青與工人、溫柔與暴力之間能否找到真正的愛情？
Hua (Corinne Yam) has followed her French lover from Beijing to Paris, only to find herself being dumped in a foreign city famed for its romance. What are the options for a 28-year-old Chinese woman in Paris? A cruel cross-cultural amour fou (mad love) ensues when Hua is literally knocked off her feet by the 25-year-old market worker Mathieu (Tahar Rahim) and he rapes her right after their first romantic dinner. Based on Jie Liu-Falin’s novel, Chinese auteur Lou Ye’s sex-frenzied Sino-French production probes the tumultuous inner landscape of Hua and explores the love-hate relationship between Beijing and Paris, between Chinese and French cultures, between an intellectual and a worker, and between tenderness and violence. |
