"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 护花使者小说在线阅读两个少女,一个生在波兰,一个生在法国,同样的相貌,同样的年龄,她们也有一样的名字:薇罗尼卡。她们都那样喜欢音乐,嗓音甜美。波兰的薇罗尼卡非常喜欢唱歌,唱高音特别出众。她觉得自己并不是独自一人生活在这个世界上,没想到一天她真的遇到一个样子跟她一模一样的女孩,可是她自己却在一次表演中心脏病发暴毙在舞台上。此时身在法国的薇罗尼卡正沉醉在与男友的欢愉中,突然她觉得特别的空虚难过。此后她的生活中便常常响起一段极其哀怨的曲子,她爱上了一个儿童读物作家。一次与男友聊天的过程中,她发现了在波兰拍的照片中,出现了一个与自己极为相似的女子,此时她才深深相信,世界上还有另外一个自己存在。