Somewhere in the remote region, the war ends. In the midst of ruined cities and houses in the streets, in rural hamlets, everywhere where people still live, are children who have lost their homes and parents. Abandoned, hungry, and in rags, defenseless and humiliated, they wander through the world. Hunger drives them. Little streams of orphans merge into a river which rushes forward and submerges everything in its path. The children do not know any feeling; they know only the world of their enemies. They fight, steal, struggle for a mouthful of food, and violence is merely a means to get it. A gang led by Cahoun finds a refuge in an abandoned castle and encounters an old composer who has voluntarily retired into solitude from a world of hatred, treason, and crime. How can they find a common ground, how can they become mutual friends? The castle becomes their hiding place but possibly it will also be their first home which they may organize and must defend. But even for this, the price will be very high.
To this simple story, the journalist, writer, poet, scriptwriter, movie director, and film theoretician Béla Balázs applied many years of experience. He and the director Géza Radványi created a work which opened a new postwar chapter in Hungarian film. Surprisingly, this film has not lost any of its impact over the years, especially on a profound philosophical level. That is to say, it is not merely a movie about war; it is not important in what location and in what period of time it takes place. It is a story outside of time about the joyless fate of children who pay dearly for the cruel war games of adults.
At the time it was premiered, the movie was enthusiastically received by the critics. The main roles were taken by streetwise boys of a children's group who created their roles improvisationally in close contact with a few professional actors, and in the children's acting their own fresh experience of war's turmoil appears to be reflected. At the same time, their performance fits admirably into the mosaic of a very complex movie language. Balázs's influence revealed itself, above all, in the introductory sequences: an air raid on an amusement park, seen in a montage of dramatic situations evoking the last spasms of war, where, undoubtedly, we discern the influence of classical Soviet cinematography. Shooting, the boy's escape, the locomotive's wheels, the shadows of soldiers with submachine guns, the sound of a whistle—the images are linked together in abrupt sequences in which varying shots and expressive sharp sounds are emphasized. A perfectly planned screenplay avoided all elements of sentimentality, time-worn stereotypes of wronged children, romanticism and cheap simplification. The authors succeeded in bridging the perilous dramatic abyss of the metamorphosis of a children's community. Their telling of the story (the scene of pillaging, the assault on the castle, etc) independently introduced some neorealist elements which, at that time, were being propagated in Italy by De Sica, Rossellini, and other film artists. The rebukes of contemporary critics, who called attention to "formalism for its own sake" have been forgotten. The masterly art of cameraman Barnabás Hegyi gives vitality to the poetic images. His angle shots of the children, his composition of scenes in the castle interior, are a living document of the times, and underline the atmosphere and the characters of the protagonists. The success of the picture was also enhanced by the musical art of composer Dénes Buday who, in tense situations, inserted the theme of the Marseilaise into the movie's structure, as a motive of community unification, as an expression of friendship and the possibility of understanding.
Valahol Europaban is the first significant postwar Hungarian film. It originated in a relaxed atmosphere, replete with joy and euphoria, and it includes these elements in order to demonstrate the strength of humanism, tolerance, and friendship. It represents a general condemnation of war anywhere in the world, in any form.
看看看看 赖导眼高手低了一回吧 概念+前一半真棒 后来就开始走下坡路 尴尬到无语凝噎
乡下来的怀揣梦想潜力大学生为了远离婊子室友租住在一个满是冤魂的伦敦老房间里，完整经历了一场想要成名最后被迫堕落的历程，感觉人生丰富了许多。本来只想给两颗星，多一颗星给靓妞。
双女主，girl helps girls。故事文本上有些bug，追看线也比较弱，但通过华美视听，竟然都能掰回来，而且观感还不错，确实体现导演功力。美术加分，乐品极好，第一次的穿越舞会闻到一丝盖茨比的气息，全片对镜子的使用花样百出，完美的串起了女主和sandie的视角转移，引领观众进入故事，产生同情。
埃德加的趣味和可爱荡然全无
如果当初不搬出去住，可能...就碰不到鬼了
Sandie的迷人保证了故事最后一丝可信度和情感重量。
确实不太行，埃德加赖特还是老老实实做喜剧吧
如果说血与冰淇淋系列是惊悚喜剧，那这片子怎么看都是一部风格十分强烈的铅黄电影啊（比温子仁那部更铅黄）！艾丽和姗迪互为镜像，都是被欲望困住的囚徒。那些隐藏在光怪陆离背后的纸醉金迷像是吃人的恶魔，始终在张开大嘴，准备吞噬一切踌躇满志的年轻人。所以从某种意义上来说，我倾向于把它理解成一部铅黄版的《黑天鹅》。但是他这底可太操了……以及，聊女性主义但绝口不提铅黄电影的，不是坏逼就是蠢。
开场的歌舞和光影很惊艳，然后是一段平缓的麦肯齐求学受排挤的过程。到了夜晚奇幻的部分，麦肯齐和安雅的“镜像”处理的很巧妙，配合着色调和光影在舞蹈中两个人在一镜里频繁切换，仿佛时光在过去与现在不停的穿梭。至此影片除了那些old school歌曲和60年代的英伦场景，再无惊人的亮点。安雅饰演的傻白甜明星梦的设定不管是过去还是现在，注定是一场悲剧的娱乐圈的血肉史。而麦肯齐现实这条线直至影片过了三分之二还依然在铺垫悬疑感，自始至终的把人设往精分的方向引导。最后两线的交叉趣味性越来越低，结局也差强人意，确实没想到，但也没惊喜感。影片虽然有灵异现象还算不上恐怖片，主要以悬疑为主，惊悚成分除了那些无脸男，黑人小哥也贡献了一份力。
听复古音乐被沉浸到六十年代的伦敦，似梦似真的附魂故事，镜分阴阳的戏份简直运镜绝佳，惊悚中带有舞蹈、音乐、悬疑，是多么别样的一杯鸡尾酒~
一星。令人生气得难看。最讨厌自我沉醉自以为是的片子。女主的选角色是灾难性的。今后不会再去看有她的片子。
快两年以后第一次回电影院LOL，上次也是看了个英国电影。这片和看过的这个导演的以往作品一样，视觉上很炫，很会选音乐。但是这部剧情比较简单，看完了以后会觉得这么简单一个故事线是怎么撑到快两个小时的。Moral of the story: 60s isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Otherwise why didn’t everyone stay there lol.
7/10。不难发现赖特受到了希区柯克、德·帕尔玛的影响，火烧阁楼一幕男性幽灵的镜头中极快速插入凶刀的大特写，想必源于《惊魂记》的著名凶杀剪辑，而珊迪踏足六十年代浮华的舞池时，观众通过银幕看到镜像化的分身和多重空间，艾洛伊斯的真身和珊迪的分身纠缠，剪辑、布景的炫技调度营造入梦/出梦的丰富变化，像德·帕尔玛式的分身电影。相比鸡肋的铺垫情节，闪烁神秘灯光的酒吧、派对、时装秀和唱片机，弥漫期间的女性色情奇观，召唤出了男性荒淫的威胁信号，纯真无邪的艾洛伊斯被侵染成金发、黑眼影和白面妆的浪荡身体，迎接她的是年老珊迪——犹如从地狱闯出的复仇恶鬼。出租屋象征性地打开了一个时间隧道：物恋化的黄金年代与成名欲的幻灭感形成深厚冲突。但影片经典文化的拼贴感，完全是去深度化、原创性缺失的，体现了独立作者向商业片的妥协。
好看。不是铅黄。但居然做到了比铅黄还蠢。边缘群体意识昭然若示，但这种低级的概念包装却只不过凸显了内容和形式的双重虚伪。
这反倒是好一阵子内看到的最好的犯罪惊悚片了。最后披露的真相倒是并不新鲜，甚至提前就能预感到，但是如今摄影、CG技术大大丰富了镜头语言的表现形式。各种不可能的长镜头成为可能，对镜子的精妙利用毫不输《黑天鹅》。
音乐服化道不错双女主表演对于低成本惊悚剧而言很棒。
真凶的设计仿佛暗含隐喻。为了保存自己持续作恶到老。似乎也呼应了伦敦固化的社会结构。但整体看下来片子还是属于比较烂的水平。而且这个结尾应该最不合豆瓣用户的胃口，6.8分明显虚高。
很好看 视觉层面的好看 光怪陆离纸醉金迷 导演的视觉表达还是很惊艳 但剧本实在是太差了太差了 憋了半集挤出个憋屁 结尾太泄气
第一次听downtown还是在《移魂女郎》里
不敢相信是EW的作品，也许他接了个美恐剧场版的活。
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