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.
女主角选的还算不错，长相接近，外在硬件条件也不错，再加上造型师妆发师的帮助，还是形似的。当然梅姐本人的内在气质那是谁都无法复制的。然而饰演张国荣的演员长相气质都不行。
拥有的就去珍惜，没有的就尽力争取，不要忘了回首来时路，梅姐歌声声声入心…
电影本身问题很多，纯质量三星出头，然而加分项不少所以四星
张：多谢！
和《波西米亚狂想曲》同属操作失误的范例，出于商业性（内地市场）制约，真正有价值的内容或避而不谈，或只剩些边角料的产出，转而用快餐式文本堆砌出一个光华无害的大姐大形象。可以想见主创们集体被往事裹挟后感动到一塌糊涂的情景，但真诚和消费真的只有闪念之差，如果不能在视角选取上有足够的把握，又何必开发这个项目呢？毕竟时过境迁，不论主人公还是她象征的那个时代，都早沉入香江底了。
我会记住梅艳芳，但大概不会记住《梅艳芳》
太好哭了，這才是真正時代的眼淚。而且確實基本上必須要在香港待過20年以上才會有感覺。
你就把梅姑所有影音采访舞台表演和朋友的点点滴滴剪一起，做个还念纪录片式的电影，也比这煞有见识的拍个人物传记类的四不像强百倍。
电影公布选角的时候，内心是有落差的。但电影看下来，主要角色的演绎并没有拖后腿，整体呈现非常不错。原因在于，电影对于八十年代的香港的构建，完成得太漂亮了，以至于主要角色的外貌与原角色的相似度，显得不那么重要。观影的过程中，我清楚地认识到，王丹妮不是梅艳芳，刘俊谦也不是张国荣，但这并不妨碍我进入那个未曾谋面的香港。让人感动的是，尽管现实有这么多的不堪，电影仍然用了一种美好的方式去回忆梅姐的恋情。梅艳芳是一位坚强的女子，分手也大方体面，没有激烈争吵，而是在公园长椅上轻松地聊天，告别。最催人泪下的是告别演唱会的还原，那是许多人深刻怀念又未能企及的高光时刻。电影在夕阳之歌中落幕，但这夕阳永不下沉。
还有，真有人能演张国荣吗？
整个电影非常分裂化，一方面你不知道你是在看电影还是在看纪录片。梅艳芳四十年的人生太精彩了，太难拍了，所以只能跳着拍，捡着拍，以至于过大放大了梅姑情欲。她不止爱的是人，还有观众，舞台，音乐，演戏。王丹妮送上了一份完成度不错的答卷，偶尔神态有似梅艳芳，其他陈善可乏。整个电影场只有两个人，我忍到最后梅姑那句"拜拜"，我才红了眼。坐在我隔壁看电影女生，在后半段全程暴风抽泣。是啊，她好像也参与了一部分梅艳芳的人生。她有，我有，似乎看这部电影的你都有。
把梅姐这样一个生于舞台死于舞台忠于舞台的大女人演成了渴望家庭而不得除了舞台一无所有的小女人。梅姐感怀没穿过“婚纱”，可她一辈子除了婚纱还穿过那么多“衣裳”，主创单单要把这件“婚纱”拎出来无限放大，真是糟践东西作践人啊！
6/10
五味杂陈，不知道如何评价。作为一个梅迷，我很荣幸自己真心喜欢过你。
我只想问一句：近藤真彦给剧方塞钱了？渣男还被美化了，我直接吐了，有这个时间我还是把Anita的告别演唱会再看一遍吧😅
使用拍摄和录像交织的方式，讲述了梅艳芳的一生。看完以后，令我非常感动。我们都既渴望天赋，又希望拥有顺遂平淡的一生。直到我们接受了上苍给予我们的使命，负重前行，我们的生命才得到了真正的圆满，灵魂得以充盈。
也许很多人说还原度不够云云，但在我看来，这部电影的意义可能不是为了让本来已经很爱她的人怀念她，而是让像我这种出生晚了几年，错过了认识最辉煌时的她的人来认识她，爱上她。要是她还在就好了。
她沒有驚艷的外貌音色，也受困過無端是非，感情路上也是折戟沈沙鐵，但仍是香港樂壇的傳奇人物，Anita的耿介個性、多變造型、時代擔當、仗義同行、獎掖後進是一股難得的清流。《夕陽之歌》實在是世紀絕唱。在電影院看粵語版也算是沈浸式了。我所記得的Mui的兩個小插曲，一是她來春晚唱《床前明月光》，一是她在《鍾無艷》反串齊王。【PolyBB】
了解一些幕后故事对电影的主创有多一点宽容，虽然对这个题材来说的确不是最好的时机。香港女儿对早已漠视甚至抵触黄金时代的最主流的年轻观众已经没有什么吸引力，但却尚未熬到版权剧情等现实境况水到渠成，足以向怀念她的群体交出满意答卷的那一刻。注定这是一部尴尬的作品，却也不是不珍贵的。总归有人会因此想起我们的观众曾有幸拥有过这样迷人的艺术家，想起她所代表的硬颈、专业、充满传奇与可能性的世界。全片除了《夕阳之歌》的真人片段，印象最深的是苏孝良指点初出茅庐的梅艳芳“慢歌唱的不是伤心，是唏嘘；快歌唱的不是热情，是反叛。”哗！心向往之。
娱乐圈最重要的东西，就是别人没有，你有——无独有偶，2021年，西方的「戴安娜」王妃「自己」驱车回到了一位名叫《斯宾塞》的女人身边，东方则「众星捧月」将一位名叫《梅艳芳》的女人「抬升」拉到了「歌后」至尊的位置上。从类型角度来看，导演对于「传记」电影的理解是过时而浅显的——作为一部重访历史现场，以「原型」人物为核心，试图重塑「女性」身份与造型——打破女性刻板印象的电影，本片对于父权规训与男性凝视下的女性生存困境没有任何自省。讽刺的是，这位「梅姐」不仅把男人们为她量身打造的黄金「战衣」披在身上，还把男人们经常挂在口边的哥们「义气」看得比什么都重。这或许正是粉丝抑或观众无法靠近、看清「坏女孩」的原因。所以，这件「雕塑」作品被「梅艳芳」哥哥起诉抑或「吸血」也并不令人意外。风华绝代花一朵，世间处处梅艳芳。
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