传奇与蝴蝶

电影为侯麦《六个道德故事》系列之一。故事讲述一个34岁的天主教徒让-路易斯（简-路易斯·特林提格南特 Jean-Louis Trintignant 饰）爱上了一个年轻的女大学生。他偶遇老朋友维塔尔（安东尼·维特兹 Antoine Vitez 饰），被邀请到一个性情豪放的离婚女人慕德（弗兰西丝·法比安 Françoise Fabian 饰）家中共进晚餐。饭桌上，持有不同道德思想的三人大谈宗教、无神论、爱情、道德、以及哲学家帕斯卡尔的生活与哲学著作等话题。聊到深夜，外面下起了大雪，维塔尔离去，慕德劝说让-路易斯留宿一夜。慕德是情场高手，她极尽挑逗之能事去引诱他。保守忠诚的天主教徒让-路易斯面对了两难之境，一方面心中已有所爱，另一方面美艳的慕德实在又难以抗拒。他半推半就，最终还是抵制住了美色的诱惑。后来，他与心爱的女孩结婚，却发现她竟然曾是慕德丈夫的情妇。
　　本片获得第42届奥斯卡最佳外语片提名、最佳原创剧本提名。

　　The moon rises at a predestined angle and awakens the sleeping Dr. Phibes in 1928, three years after the events of the previous movie. To his dismay, he finds that his house has been demolished and his papyrus scrolls stolen, the scrolls he needs to find the Pharaoh's Tomb in Egypt, where the River of Life flows. After identifying the source of the papyrus theft, he packs and leaves for Egypt with his assistant Vulnavia - whose face displays no effects from the acid shower she received at the end of the previous film (although the character is now played by a different actress, Valli Kemp). His primary goal is the awakening of his dead wife, Victoria.
　　The thieves of Phibes' scrolls suffer an attrition problem as Inspectors Trout and Waverly chase Phibes across the world. The party is led by Beiderbeck (Robert Quarry, best known for playing Count Yorga). Although he looks young, he is several hundred years old and wants to find the River of Life in order to stay alive and be with his lover Diana (Fiona Lewis) forever. This time Phibes' murders all have an Egyptian theme to them; for example, one character is sand-blasted to death. Other deaths include someone being stung to death by scorpions, being eaten by an eagle (in the original script impaled by a gold eagle in the same way a doctor in The Abominable Dr. Phibes was impaled by a golden unicorn), and a golden snake piercing someone's skull.
　　At the climax, Beiderbeck sacrifices his life in order to save Diana. The film ends with Phibes riding a raft down the River of Life with Victoria, while singing "Over the Rainbow" (which is strange, as this film is set in 1928 but "Over The Rainbow" wasn't written until 1938). It is left ambiguous whether Victoria is resurrected or not, although a picture inside the DVD shows her in the raft with her eyes open and smiling at the camera

　　本片改编自法国著名放荡主义小说，曾经被多次改编成不同版本的电影、影集、舞台剧。
　　三十年代，在日军枪炮下的上海上流社会依旧每天在纸醉金迷的狂欢中迷失。谢易梵（张东健 饰）是风月场上有名的花花公子，莫婕妤（张柏芝 饰）是风情万种却深藏城府的豪门遗孀，两人有着不可分割的亲密关 系。莫怂恿谢去勾引抛弃自己的富商即将迎娶的少女贝贝。而谢则觉得不够挑战，对出身名门的纯情寡妇杜芬玉（章子怡 饰）产生了兴趣。当即谢、莫两人展开了以杜为诱饵的赌局游戏，赌的内容是谢得到杜的身体，而奖品则是谢梦寐以求的莫的身体。对于谢的追求，杜从开始的抵抗到后来越陷越深，而谢也发现自己爱上了猎物，这一切令莫怒火中烧。当所有的道德、禁忌完全被打破，这些游戏的男女纷纷陷入欲望的河流，种下了悲剧的结果......

　　自从大学时男友林旭东（周渝民 饰）交通意外死亡后，傅恩佳（李冰冰 饰）三年来一直未能忘情，每晚靠吃药丸来让自己入眠。而自从停吃药丸，恩佳就开始看见旭东，旭东在每一个夜晚前来，追问交通意外当天的问题：你到底是不是真的喜欢我？
　　恩佳的生活从此被打乱，然而这也使她开始回望反思自己的生活，了解旭东的童年、父亲，还有他们爱情开始时最美妙情深的时刻。
　　只有勇敢面对过去，才能真正地把握现在。

　　在回家的途中，一位商人（安德烈·杜索里埃 André Dussollier 饰）遭遇了罕见的暴风雪，昏天黑地之中，商人误打误撞来到了一幢豪华神秘的城堡前。商人在城堡中受到了贵宾般的优厚待遇，但直到最后，商人仍然不知道城堡的主人究竟是谁。暴风雪停歇了，商人准备离开，临走之前，他决定在花园中摘一朵玫瑰送给自己最喜爱的小女儿贝儿（蕾雅·赛杜 Léa Seydoux 饰），而令他没有想到的是，长相狰狞的野兽（文森·卡索 Vincent Cassel 饰）出现在了他的面前向他索命。
　　商人失魂落魄的回到了家，将自己的遭遇告诉了六个儿女，爱父心切的贝儿决定代替父亲，只身来到了城堡。然而，等待着贝儿的却并非死亡，而是更加盛情的款待，野兽对她唯一的要求，就是不要离开城堡半步。贝儿并不惧怕野兽，随着时间的推移，两人之间的关系越来越近。