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篇篇情意劫 Sylvia

2004香港國際電影節參展影片

她是文學界的偶像，她是女權主義的象徵，她有一段刻骨銘心的愛情故事，她有一段苦不堪言的婚姻生活，她飽受精神困擾，最後步上不歸路…… 她，是二十世紀最偉大的女詩人----茜菲亞•普拉芙。

由真人真事改編，年青的普拉芙來到劍橋求學，在晚會上與泰德•曉士一見鍾情；兩人都對詩歌創作充滿熱誠，愛情在文字之間孕育成長，一年後，他們步過了教堂，戴上了結婚戒指。可是，婚後的生活並沒有想像中如意。丈夫的魅力與才華，令無數少女主動投懷送抱，普拉芙開始懷疑自己是否一廂情願。她笨拙地試圖挽救雙方的愛，但每次都落得不歡而散，一切只變得愈來愈惡劣。當她發現丈夫與好友的戀情時，終於徹底崩潰。

婚姻破裂令普拉芙飽受精神折磨，痛苦在狠狠地吞噬著她，絕望的陰影揮之不散。茜菲亞在黑暗中迸發出驚人的力量，著了魔似的瘋狂寫作，在詩歌裡逃避現實，在字裡行間尋求一絲慰藉，她就像一所快要倒塌的建築，要透過創作才能苦苦支撐，不至倒下…

1963年二月的倫敦，天氣出奇地寒冷，普拉芙的生命力逐漸轉化為文字，一點點地流失…

關於本片
茜菲亞•普拉芙(Sylvia Plath)1932年出生於美國麻省一個中產家庭，她早熟、聰慧、敏感、好強，八歲就開始發表詩歌。1955年遠赴劍橋求學，邂逅另一位詩人泰德•曉士(Ted Hughes)，陷入瘋狂熱戀之中，一年後共揩連理。或許愈是愛得不惜一切，普拉芙就愈無法忍受丈夫的不忠，精神逐漸失常，年僅三十歲便與世長辭。

普拉芙死後，她的作品開始廣泛流傳，人們開始驚嘆其才華，亦對她的離去感到惋惜。而曉士則背負千夫所指的惡名，不少人都認為他對普拉芙的死有直接關係，令曉士多年來都無法在公眾面前抬頭，只能以沉默迴避責難。但每年普拉芙生日，他都會寫幾首詩去悼念亡妻，紀錄兩人的風月往事，追憶兩人的悲歡離合。年復一年，這些詩集被保存下來，結集成書出版，名為《生日書信》(Birthday Letters)。

《篇篇情意劫》根據《生日書信》改編，由桂莉芙柏德露(Gwyneth Paltrow)飾演普拉芙，她的書卷氣質以及古典美感，確是最切合不過。這位影后亦坦言，普拉芙是她夢寐以求的絕佳角色。

「當我甘一歲時，曾參與一部獨立電影拍攝。」桂莉芙柏德露說，「當時有幾位女演員跟我說﹕有機會的話，你應扮普拉芙。到拍攝煞科日，她們送了一本《瓶中美人》。閱讀後，覺得她實在非同凡響。由那一刻開始，我對她以及其作品都極有興趣。」

關於導演
來自新西蘭的導演姬絲汀•謝夫絲(Christine Jeffs)原是剪接一名，2001年，由她初次執導之作《十三歲之微雨》(Rain)，在康城電影節大放異彩，獲得廣泛好評。監製愛麗遜•奧芸(Alison Owen)亦甚為欣賞，認為她有打動觀眾的能力。

「當我們要找一位合適的導演時，我們最關注的是她能否感動人心，這是電影的成功要素。」監製愛麗遜•奧芸道，「我記得看完《十三歲之微雨》後，足足有五分鐘時間不能說話。那是一部了不起的作品，我亦相信姬絲汀有能力把本片拍得好。」

另一方面，導演本身亦是一位普拉芙迷，這對電影製作有莫大幫助。「《篇篇情意劫》是一個愛情故事，也是普拉芙試圖成為好作家與好母親的故事。」導演姬絲汀說，「我不單止對兩人的愛情感興趣，同時亦想表達出﹕兩個創意澎湃的天才是如何一起生活，他們又是如何互相傷害。」

導演
姬絲汀•謝夫絲(Christine Jeffs)

演員
桂莉芙•柏德露 (Gwyneth Paltrow) 丹尼爾•基克 (Daniel Craig)

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SYLVIA
Official Selection of Hong Kong Films Festival

The film tells the story of the relationship between the poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and its relation to both Plath's psychological problems and her blossoming into one of the twentieth century's most important poets.

At the start of the film Sylvia Plath is a literary Wunderkind and with ambitions to be a great poet. Arriving in Cambridge on a Fulbright Scholarship she is a sparkle of bold, American colour against the more repressed English tweeds. When she reads the poetry of a young English graduate called Ted Hughes, she determines to meet him. Confronting him at a drunken launch party for a literary magazine, from the moment they meet their fate is inextricably intertwined.

Ted leaves his address and Sylvia eventually finds him in London, where he works and lives with like-minded beatniks who share his passion for poetry and the arts. After a drunken evening of poetry reciting with his friends, the two make love for the first time. During a glamorous and intense courtship in Cambridge and London Ted learns that Sylvia is the survivor of at least one failed suicide attempt, and troubled by her relationship with her dead father Otto.

They marry and set up home in London. Sylvia throws herself into her work, transforming their bedroom into a makeshift office and sending out their poetry to various publishers and competitions until they receive news that Ted has won the New York poetry prize. They are both ecstatic and as they travel to her Cape Cod family home, Sylvia dreams of all the novels she will write that summer. However, when she actually sits down to write, nothing comes. Ted tells Sylvia she must dig deeper with her writing, exposing the darker side of her personality.

Sylvia begins teaching English at Smith's College in order to support them both; it exhausts her and she finds she has little time to write. She becomes increasingly paranoid about Ted's attention to other women. This culminates in an ugly and violent argument over Ted's supposed dalliance with a female student at Smith's. Sylvia flies at Ted utterly intent upon hurting him just as he has hurt her.

Ted and Sylvia return to London and they set up home in Fitzroy Road, Primrose Hill. Sylvia gives birth to Frieda, and Ted begins to make a name for himself among the literary scene. Sylvia too receives some recognition for one of her poems from Al Alvarez, a prominent journalist, whom the couple befriend.

Once again they decide to move - this time to Devon - and make another new beginning, but in the process of letting their London flat they meet a couple called David and Assia Wevill. Ted and Assia are instantly attracted to one another, but the move to Devon seems to make any kind of a relationship impossible. Ted and Sylvia have a second child, Nicholas. However, when Assia and David visit the couple in their country home at Court Green, Sylvia becomes aware of the threat, but it is too late for her to prevent the inevitable. Ted and Assia begin an affair. At first Ted is racked with guilt and makes an effort to repair any damage to his marriage. It is all the encouragement Ted needs to leave her and join Assia in London. Ironically, the experience results in a poetic outpouring of astonishing force and Sylvia realizes she is writing the poems that will make her famous.

Partly in an attempt to escape the isolation she feels in Devon, and partly to keep the possibility of reconciliation with Ted alive, Sylvia moves back to London with their children, finding a home in Chalcot Square, Primrose Hill. But things don't go well with Ted, and amidst the hardest winter of the century, Sylvia's mental state deteriorates further until she realizes she is no longer capable of looking after the children.

In one last, desperate act she arranges to meet Ted and proposes that they try to forget everything that has happened and begin again. But although part of him wants to, Ted is forced to tell Sylvia that Assia is pregnant with his child. For Sylvia it is the final straw.

She tucks the children into their beds, protecting them from the cold as she opens a window. She then goes to the kitchen and puts her head in the oven. By morning the children are found by a nurse who has been sent to check that Sylvia is coping. Ted is devastated. He finds her good bye in the form of her poems (which later form the collection Ariel). Sylvia finally has the fame and success she once craved so much.

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