故事发生在1968年,一场意外中,泰勒(查尔登·海斯顿 Charlton Heston 饰)和诺娃(琳达·哈里逊 Linda Harrison 饰)的飞船穿越到了两千年后的时间线中,他们来到了一个被人猿统治的星球上,直到两人在沙滩上发现了自由女神像的残骸之后他们才恍然大悟,原来这里并不是什么外星球,而是人类唯一的家园——地球。地面上突然出现的巨大裂痕让泰勒和诺娃调入了庞大繁杂的地底世界之中,他们要面对的,是猿族首领佐斯博士(莫里斯·埃文斯 Maurice Evans 饰)的无情追杀。 1970年,为了拯救泰勒一行人,救援飞船来到了地球,哪知道也穿越了时空,布伦特(詹姆斯·弗朗西斯 James Franciscus 饰)是飞船上唯一的幸存者,并且最终幸运的和诺娃成功会师。两人于无意之中得知了猿组要从地球上铲除所有人类的计划。
塞莱斯特(莎莉·菲尔德 Sally Field饰)是一名女演员,正在参演一部名叫《太阳又西沉》的电视剧。和她一起参演的还有年轻漂亮的洛丽(伊丽莎白·苏 Elisabeth Shue 饰)和充满了心机一心想要取代塞莱斯特的蒙塔纳(凯西·莫拉蒂 Cathy Moriarty 饰)。为了为难塞莱斯特,蒙塔纳撺掇制片人戴维(小罗伯特·唐尼 Robert Downey Jr. 饰)请来了塞莱斯特的旧情人杰弗里(凯文·克莱恩 Kevin Kline 饰),哪知道花心的杰弗里竟然一下子就喜欢上了洛丽。 让大家没有想到的是,洛丽的真实身份竟然是塞莱斯特和杰弗里的私生女,在电视剧大结局即将上演之际,每个人都暴露出了他们的秘密。
Magdalena and Maria are two twin sisters who were separated at birth and know nothing of the other’s existence. Maria runs away from the boarding school in which she was brought up and finds work as a cabaret performer in the cafés of Marseilles. Magdalena lives with her adopted parents and works in an art gallery. The two sisters are joined by an invisible bond which draws them towards the same tragic conclusion. Director Werner Schroeter has acquired a reputation as an experimentalist filmmaker, hailed by some as an underrated genius, reviled by others for being a peddler of self-indulgent kitsch. Deux is arguably Schroeter’s most ambitious, unsettling and repulsive work to date. The director certainly wastes no time in alienating his audience; from the first ten minutes of the film it is clear this is not going to be an easy ride. The narrative cuts haphazardly between seemingly unconnected events, alternating between realism and stylised fantasy dream sequences, periodically shocking the spectator with graphic images of lesbian sex and a woman being slowly disembowelled. Having several actors playing multiple parts only adds to the sense of artifice and utter confusion, which is a pity as there is manifestly a lot of great acting talent on show – not least of which is Isabelle Huppert. The film’s sheer relentless grotesqueness and self-indulgence is so extreme, so unbridled, so stomach-churningly provocative, that it is hard to take any of it seriously.