影片主角是一个78岁的英国著名作家,他身患重病却仍然酗酒成性,口不择言。夜晚不时陷于噩梦的缠绕中,令他想入非非,一边琢磨着他最后一部作品的情节构思,一边回忆着他的往事。于是,噩梦、他的想象加上往事的回忆相互混淆在一起,共同构成了他作品的故事框架。 影片将文学创作的过程跟幻想、愤怒等融为一体,制造了一个精致的弗洛伊德哑谜。这是雷奈的第一部用英语拍摄的影片。剧本比较拗口罗嗦,有较重的文学味,影片被认为是雷奈的杰作,博加德的演出尤为精湛,但一般观众可能会觉得单调乏味。 Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relati...。Olga and Maks are 15 years away. She is a successful woman with an established position, the mother of an adult daughter, he is a handsome young man who enjoys his life in a handful and lives only in the moment. It might seem that these two different worlds will never meet, and yet fate put them in the way.。