基本介绍：
《巴尔扎克激情的一生》是一部1999年上映的剧情片，Josée Dayan导演。
英文简介：
Honoré de Balzac was a man who lived to write. His life was a hard, permanent struggle, from his cold relationship with his mother who was unable to give him the love he needed, to his unsuccessful attempts to make money out of printing and publishing books. Balzac never gives up, however – even though his dissolute lifestyle keeps landing him in trouble with his creditors. To finally gain acclaim for his works and to earn enough money to survive, Balzac works like a man possessed, day and night, to the brink of exhaustion, drinking liter upon liter of coffee to keep himself awake. The passionate author also tends to go to excess in affairs of the heart – he has several woman friends at the same time, all of them very different from each other. They include the kind, caring and elderly Madame de Berny, and the egotistical, ambitious Laure d’Abrantès, who introduces Balzac to the salons of upper-class society. Balzac’s heart belong to just one person alone, however: Eve Hanska, a married Polish woman living in Russia. At first she and Balzac simply have a passionate exchange of correspondence, but then they meet each other for the first time in Switzerland. On his return to Paris, Balzac is mortified to learn of the death of Madame de Berny. It comes as all the more of a shock to him because she was the only person who loved him as a man, rather than as a literary idol. Balzac then has a series of unlucky experiences in his work too: whatever he tries to do it always turns out to be a naive and unrealistic dream. Even though his new works are being well received socially, and do start to bring him a small income, Balzac’s financial situation becomes ever more desperate because of his dissolute and excessive lifestyle. When Eve Hanska’s husband dies, Balzac finally wants to fulfill his greatest wish, and marry the woman he has loved for so many years. Eve has a miscarriage and loses their child. Balzac is totally shaken by this event, while Eve is strangely unconcerned. Does she, too, only love him for his artistic reputation? The long-awaited marriage does finally take place in Russia, after years of delay – but Balzac doesn’t have long to enjoy marital bliss. He goes blind, and dies a slow and agonizing death just four months later. His friend Victor Hugo is the only person to remain by his side until the very end…
谷歌翻译，仅供参考
巴尔扎克勋爵是一个活着写作的人。他的生活是一场艰苦而持久的斗争，从他与无法给予他所需要的爱的母亲的冷漠关系，到他试图通过印刷和出版书籍赚钱的失败尝试。然而，巴尔扎克从未放弃过——尽管他放荡的生活方式让他不断陷入债主的麻烦之中。为了最终为自己的作品赢得赞誉并挣到足够的钱来生存，巴尔扎克像一个被附体的人一样，日夜工作到筋疲力尽的边缘，喝着一升又一升的咖啡来保持清醒。这位充满激情的作家也倾向于在心事上过分——他同时有好几个女性朋友，她们都很不一样。他们包括善良、体贴、年迈的伯尼夫人，以及自负、野心勃勃的劳雷德阿布兰泰斯，她把巴尔扎克介绍给了上层社会的沙龙。巴尔扎克的心只属于一个人，然而：伊芙·汉斯卡，一个生活在俄罗斯的已婚波兰女人。起初，她和巴尔扎克只是热情地交换信件，但后来他们在瑞士第一次见面。巴尔扎克回到巴黎后，得知伯尼夫人去世的消息，感到很惭愧。这让他更加震惊，因为她是唯一一个爱他的男人，而不是文学偶像。巴尔扎克在他的工作中也有一系列不幸的经历：无论他试图做什么，结果总是一个天真和不切实际的梦想。尽管巴尔扎克的新作品在社会上广受欢迎，并开始给他带来微薄的收入，但由于他的放荡和过度的生活方式，他的经济状况变得越来越绝望。当伊芙·汉斯卡的丈夫去世后，巴尔扎克终于想实现自己最大的愿望，嫁给他爱了这么多年的女人。夏娃流产了，失去了孩子。巴尔扎克完全被这件事震惊了，而伊芙却出奇地漠不关心。难道她也只是因为他的艺术声誉才爱他吗？期待已久的婚姻终于在俄罗斯举行了，经过多年的拖延-但巴尔扎克没有太长时间享受婚姻的幸福。他失明了，四个月后就慢慢地痛苦地死去了。他的朋友维克多雨果是唯一一个留在他身边直到最后的人。。。
他转了一圈还是回到原初，但周遭的一切已经改变，于是这就造成了悲剧。所有的人都在纠结，以至爱与恨都不再简单利落。生命既激情四射又招人厌烦，是的，烦死了。
主軸都沒放在創作，根本是巴爾札克同學情史大集合……我有點受不了某人渾身上下的自戀感，大家別再找他演古裝主角了可以嗎。
如此文艺又风流至上的片子，作家既是对女性自由的崇尚与推崇，却也不可避免地在玩弄和利用身边的人，借助他们来达成自己的梦想或者是其他事情。 可叹。