埃米莉·当德里厄（奥黛丽·塔图 Audrey Tautou饰），日韩一位前卫的年轻女理发师。她独居的母亲麦蒂·当德里厄（娜塔莉·贝伊 Nathalie Baye饰）患有抑郁症。为了让母亲开心，日韩重燃对生活的信心，埃米莉使出浑身解数，居然给母亲写了一封激情洋溢的情书。女儿善意的谎言只是想让妈妈得到幸福，然而夹在母女间的男人吉恩（塞米·鲍亚吉拉 Sami Bouajila饰）却因为阴差阳错的误会而一头雾水。皮埃尔·萨尔瓦多执导的法国喜剧电影《美丽的谎言》，由古灵精怪的奥黛丽·塔图、优美高雅的娜塔莉·贝伊与塞米·鲍亚吉拉联袂主演。
回复 :艾克(理查•基尔 Richard Gere 饰)是一名专栏记者，他的妻子就是顶头上司。然而，这并没有给他带来多少好运气，相反，和妻子性格不合离婚后，因这层关系艾克过得更加抑郁。一次偶然，艾克在酒吧里听闻了马里兰州一名女子玛琪(朱莉娅•罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰)三次踏上红地毯时临阵脱逃的故事。他对这件事深感兴趣，并将其写成了专栏。当艾克去到实地采访当地人时，没想到人们普遍对他的做法感到很愤怒。而即将第四次踏上红地毯的事件主人公玛琪因为看了艾克的专栏后大感尴尬，第四次临阵逃脱。玛琪认为是艾克害惨了自己，决定以牙还牙。
回复 :從南美雨林區前來法國訪問的僧士，意外地在電梯中撞見一名無所事事的法國人培林，他對培林一見如故，儘管培林態度冷淡、意興闌珊，他還是讓僧士睡在他旅館房間裡。第二天當正式參訪活動進行一半時，僧士竟意外心臟病發作，緊急送醫後不能言語的他，堅持要見培林一面，心不甘情不願的培林只好前往醫院。打從這兩個人見面在電梯撞見那一刻起，彷彿一切就像命中註定似地，現在要說厭惡對方，大概是很難了…
回复 :Sixty Glorious Years is an exercise in the creation of iconography, both for Victoria and its star, Anna Neagle (who subsequently became known as 'Regal Neagle'). Just as Elizabeth I commissioned artists to create flattering iconic images for public consumption, so this film performs a similar function, for Neagle is more beautiful than the real life Victoria. Controversial events (such as the 'Irish problem') are omitted and unpleasant aspects of Victoria's character (her petulance, arrogance, favouritism and 'right to privilege') are glossed over as endearing little 'whims'. Albert acts as a moderating influence when she goes too far.The film followed a year after the highly successful Victoria the Great (d. Herbert Wilcox, 1937). Again the screenplay is by Miles Malleson and Robert Vansittart, and many of the supporting cast (the cream of acting talent of period) repeat their roles, this time for the colour cameras. This was the first full length Technicolor film of cinematographer Freddie Young, who captures the spectacle of royal weddings, grand balls and opulent interiors, with scenes actually filmed at royal palaces. Vivid battle scenes, set in Alexander Korda's empire territory (Sevastopol and the Sudan), rival those in The Four Feathers (d. Zoltan Korda 1939).The title music sets the tone: a regal choir sings over a shot of the crown. Elgar's 1901 'Pomp and Circumstance' march is heard during the diamond jubilee celebrations and, as Victoria's coffin lies in state, the film concludes with Anthony Collins' stately music accompanied by the text of Rudyard Kipling's 'Lest we forget'. Combined with the emotional appeal of scenes of Victoria connecting with her 'ordinary folk', this is stirring stuff.The film connects with contemporary events of 1938. The release of two celebratory royal films was intended to boost public affection for the monarchy in the wake of Edward VIII's abdication. Anglo-German relations were another touchy subject. With another war on the horizon, influential voices wanted appeasement, and the film could be seen to fit that agenda. Victoria herself was of mainly German descent, nicknamed 'the grandmother of Europe', while Albert is a 'good German', charmingly played by Anton Walbrook as a cultured, decent man.Sixty Glorious Years now seems unduly formal and reverential. Had movies existed during Victoria's reign (they only emerged at the end) this might have been the kind of film produced. Unlike Mrs Brown (d. John Madden, 1997), it is all so very 'Victorian'.Roger Philip Mellor
