The beautiful Shizuka Himanoki has been saving herself for a boy she met twelve years ago. They made a promise back then, and she’s determined to keep it. But when she finally tracks him down, she catches him in the act with another woman. Where can a nineteen-year- old virgin turn for solace?
“Okada’s death completely fits into Sato’s version of Japan, alienated and constantly watched. Women, especially, are followed with camcorders, viewed by security cameras, denied privacy. They float, friendless and unattached, in and out of phone booths, sex clubs, medical research, subways, neon cities.”
Two friends, who both work for the same high-priced, high-powered law firm, are both married to modern day witches. Erica, the wife of Larry, believes that he is being led astray by Carol, an old flame, who also works for the same law firm. Erica decides to act and one night after a torrid sex session Larry drifts off to sleep and begins to dream. Soon the dream turns into a ni...
阿娜伊丝?宁(Maria de Medeiros玛丽亚?德?梅黛洛 饰),银行家雨果(Richard E. Grant 饰)的妻子,一个外表雍容却沉迷于D. H. 劳伦斯文字的野性女子。在丈夫的介绍下,阿娜伊丝结识了外表颓废粗糙的小说家亨利?米勒(Fred Ward弗雷德?沃德 饰),她迷上了眼前这个睿智的男子,继而又为亨利的妻子琼(Uma Thurman 乌玛?瑟曼 饰)所吸引。
在琼的嘱托下,阿娜伊丝开始照料亨利的生活,为他的小说《北回归线》四处奔走,并由此衍生出一段段狂野激情的欢愉……
本片获1991年奥斯卡最佳剧本提名。