巅峰拍档第三季

　　苏联版的“侠盗罗宾汉”的故事。因为可以接触到客户的财务数据，在保险公司供职的主人公可以推断出哪些客户是诈骗犯或腐败分子。他白天是朝九晚五的公司职员，晚上是“偷车大盗”。 他“抢劫和敲诈”那些坏人的汽车，并把获得的钱都匿名捐给慈善机构。他很快遇到了一个麻烦，他最好的朋友是个警察，正在竭力抓捕那个窃车贼...
　　目前看过梁赞诺夫最好的作品，一个俄版都市侠盗的故事，简单而精巧，情节紧凑人物丰富，喜剧桥段大都能够跨越语言的界限，之后几部著名作品中使用的的手法也基本成熟，尤其是其中追逐的桥段对空间的立体运用十分独特，效果超越同时期好莱坞公路电影。

　　律师李捷（姚晨 饰）正在离婚进行时，与前夫争夺女儿抚养权，拼命工作为给孩子最好的生活，幸有保姆孙芳（马伊琍 饰）帮忙照顾孩子视如己出。                                                                                  一日下班，李捷发现保姆孙芳和女儿毫无预兆地消失了，她内心最大的恐惧变成了现实。在追寻孙芳和女儿的下落时，她收到来自家人的谴责声讨，甚至遭到警方的怀疑。几乎崩溃的李捷，靠着惊人的勇气，踏上独自寻访的旅 程。在追踪过程中，李捷逐渐接近了另一个女人——保姆孙芳的人生故事，她的身份原先都是谎言，而真相也将浮出水面……

　　承接“饕餮自助”，扎克与凯西的关系陷入冰河期，但他们报名的夏季戏剧营已经不能取消。来到营地后两人各有际遇：扎克与饰演对手戏的本奇互生好感，但后者一直谎称直男；凯西感受到威胁，求助同人女潘妮结果越帮越忙，更懵不知自己沦为同室帅哥比欧的猎物。来添乱的是，荡女蒂凡尼一跃成为戏剧老师，靠拍同志片沟女的指导员杰森对变性学生莉莉情不自禁，海伦姨妈竟然因为一个叫安迪的壮男焕发第二春！当然人在抓马营，湿身不由己，这次他们要糟蹋——噢不，表演——的剧目是莎士比亚的名作：驯悍记。强攻强受的勾心斗角同时在真假两个舞台上演..……

　　这名演员的事业巅峰已离他而去，但他还一直沉浸在过去的辉煌中，知道一个意外事件迫使他直面现在的自己

　　Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.
　　Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)
　　As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.
　　The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).
　　Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.