方块皇后 / Queen of Diamonds (1991)

　　Las Vegas is what you make of it. Hollywood makes it into a place of speedy, jacked-up risk. Nina Menkes is an American Filmmaker with no interest in that Vegas. Hers is a place of great expanses of dry earth, smudged blue sky, flat lakes, lonely people and incongruously garish or claustrophobic interiors. Queen of Diamonds is about moods, the Old Testament, death, marriage, hazard and how we watch images on a screen; it is only tangentially about a black jack dealer whose husband is missing.

　　Menkes, who once photographed Bedouin people in the Sinai, has an eye for compositional drama and a sense of pace that couldn't be more opposed to Hollywood time, which assumes viewer impatience. (...) Maintaining the integrity of a radical experimentalist with the resources of fine-grain 35mm film technology, Menkes may be on a course to making an unprecedented kind of cinema. Queen of Diamonds is a step in that course.

　　

　　译文(3): 拉斯维加斯就是你所做的。好莱坞把它变成了一个快速、高风险的地方。妮娜·门克斯（Nina Menkes）是一位美国电影制作人，对拉斯维加斯毫无兴趣。她的地方有大片干燥的土地、污浊的蓝天、平坦的湖泊、孤独的人们和不协调的花哨或幽闭的室内。《钻石女王》讲述的是情绪、旧约、死亡、婚姻、危险以及我们如何在屏幕上观看图像；这只是一个关于一个丈夫失踪的黑人贩子的故事。