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剧情简介
"Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide "The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport both in their professional and daily lives between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps. The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial." -Steve Grayson "my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty." - Jonathan Rosenbaum
观众心声
港真，对比起来说，戈达尔的大部分片都蛮友好的了。Straub–Huillet真是越来越走火入魔，简直是丧心病狂了惹。
到后面听出来了，本片所选演员的朗诵力度与节奏均不及《他们的约会》也因此听感大相径庭。当然，也可能只是自己的错觉/借口。
让-马里·斯特劳布夫妇的维多里尼三部曲之一，改编自《墨西拿的妇女》，讲的是战后意大利一群男女建立新集体的经过（当然，所有情节都是演员诵读出来的）。维多里尼自称是非马克思主义的共产党员，主张文学创作不能听从党的领导， 而应为解放“人”而斗争。
没有《他们的约会》好
7.3/10。①二战后意大利一群工人/农民男女集中资源经营一集体农庄过程中的各种合作、困境、矛盾。②声音上是各种抑扬顿挫颇具音乐性的念白，画面上要么是各种剧情扮演要么是用法常规但颇有味道的空镜头。③施特劳布夫妇以大量原地不动（有时会肢体运动）的角色表演（以及角色们克制的表演模式）塑造庄严感（正如故事主题的严肃性），以极简的置景和干净简约的摄影美术营造一种更纯粹的情绪感受与精神体验（同质于《词语》），并在这些形式的基础上以较舒适的音响和②所说的念白方式为影像提供最主要的情绪魅力与诗意。④影像上的情绪冲击力不够强（冲击力比《摩西与亚伦》轻）；几段演员明目张胆读稿（稿子在画面内可见）是缺乏影像意义的间离，是败笔。