A 65-year-old single artist living in New York City has a good life: a stable teaching job, successful friends, and a loyal, aging dog named Bing. As her dream of a respectable place in the art world becomes more elusive, her frustration with her lack of recognition feels alarmingly urgent.
After a string of crushing personal and professional humiliations, Jack Lee accepts that at age 39 he is a failure. Worst of all, he's let down his selfless immigrant parents. To get back on track, Jack reaches out to others: an almost famous guru, a respected arts administrator, and two fellow computer programmers, all of whom have problems of their own.
Jane Hawkins 是个非常有天赋的体操运动员,可是一次严重的负伤让她不得不退出这个舞台.她曾经的热情和信心完全无法投入到她现在按摩师的工作和一场没有爱情的婚姻中.一次偶然的机会使她的生活彻底改变.与一位神秘又美丽的舞蹈演员表演空中飞人.生活的琐碎令人烦恼,而空中的表演却让她们的心不可避免的慢慢接近.. 也许为了找到自己,你必须冒险鼓起勇气.. Chronicles the journey two women take to grow and to find newfound strength together. Jane, a 43-year-old masseuse, was once an Olympic gymnast until an accident forced her early retirement. Unhappily married, she is drawn back to the gym where she meets gymnastics instructor Nicole and her gorgeous student Serena, a 28-year old lesbian--together they form an aerial dance troupe. While training for an audition in Las Vegas, Jane develops an undeniable attraction to Serena, putting both women's commitment to their work to the test, and forcing them to make hard decisions.
Lucjan is a theatre actor whose health is failing. He forgets his lines on stage and feels confused and out of place in his daily life. He decides to end his acting career and soon winds up in a nursing home. In this new place, the elderly man misses his late wife. He starts having nightmares that seem to become real. In one of them, he discovers a passage into a magical world deceptively similar to his theatre. Lucjan starts living in two parallel dimensions – real life and the fairy tale – that become increasingly dependent on each other and intertwined. His immersion in the imaginary world leads to an unexpected ending. A bittersweet treatise on passing. The fairy-tale world Lucjan creates is not so much a metaphor for death as a symbolic reconciliation to its coming.
苏菲(芭芭拉·舒尔茨 Barbara Schulz 饰)是一个性格非常保守的女人,过着平淡如水的生活,一天,她和奥利维亚(Alexandre Brasseur 饰)做了一个大胆的决定,那就是在未经考虑和调查的情况下,以极低的价格购买了一间度假用的别墅。虽然当他们告诉别人这幢别墅的所在地的名称时,他们都露出了嘲讽和神情,但真正抵达别墅之前,苏菲和奥利维亚还是坚信,他们捡了一个大便宜。 终于,房屋交付的那一天来到了,这对夫妻带着孩子们乘坐小船七拐八弯的抵达了目的地,让一行人感到震惊的是,他们所购买的别墅,居然位于一个天体露营地之中,这也就意味着,他们的别墅,被一群裸体主义者给包围了。
尤里作为一位拥有出色技能的女主人经营着一家旅馆。有一天,竞争客栈的老板娘派了两个探子。然而,在发现间谍是处女后,女主人以第一次体验的男人的强烈色情技巧来回应他们
约翰(克里斯托弗·乔纳 Kristoffer Joner 饰)是一个看似木讷老实的小职员,女友英格丽(安娜·巴赫-维格 Anna Bache-Wiig 饰)的决然离开令他倍受打击。虽然约翰无数次希望重新来过,但是他们的爱情已无力回天。沮丧落寞之际,他结识了住在隔壁的邻居安娜(塞西蕾·A·莫斯利 Cecilie A. Mosli 饰)和金(朱莉娅·舒华特 Julia Schacht 饰)。安娜端庄雍容,金妖冶性感,虽仅有一墙之隔,但是她们似乎知晓约翰和英格丽之间的一切。约翰虽然感到阵阵不安,但却不知不觉为这两个女孩所吸引,他也由此坠入一个深不见底的黑色漩涡…… 本片荣获2005年挪威阿曼达奖最佳男主角奖(Kristoffer Joner)。