一天晚上,埃米尔卡(Emilka)在一家俱乐部遇到了年纪稍大的马西克(Maciek)。他向由单身母亲抚养长大的埃米尔卡展示了一个充满欲望、激情、躁动不安和叛逆的全新世界。女孩和他一起搬进来,起初一切似乎都很完美,但渐渐地,埃米尔卡发现了她独立的身份,并开始与他分开。当她成为歌手的梦想成真时,Maciek感到受到威胁。一场有毒的爱情游戏开始了,充满了欲望和嫉妒 Emilka meets the slightly-older Maciek out at a club one night. He shows Emilka—who was brought up by a single mom—a whole new world filled with desire, passion, restlessness and rebellion. The girl moves in with him and at first everything seems just perfect, but gradually Emilka discovers her separate identity, and starts to grow apart from him. When her dream of becoming a singer comes true, Maciek feels threatened. A toxic love game begins, full of lust and jealousy.
For 27-year-old Ben (Josh Lawson), life couldn’t be better. A well paid job, friends, parties, girls and nothing to tie him down. But when he is invited back to his old school to join several other ex-students including Alex (Rachael Taylor) and Jim (Ed Kavalee) in talking about their personal achievements, something goes wrong. Ben is the only speaker not to be asked a question by the school kids. This triggers a year of soulsearching and looking for answers in all the wrong places. From his best friend Andy (Christian Clark) whose solution is that they both take another holiday, to his mentor Sam (Lachy Hulme) who loans him a sports car in the belief that there’s nothing like excessive speed to resolve emotional turmoil. Not even Ben’s father (Rob Carlton) or friends Nick (Daniel Henshall) and Em (Felicity Ward) can offer much in the way of meaningful guidance. Of course, it’s not easy seeking enlightenment in nightclubs, or on the ski fields of New Zealand, and when you start dating a Russian tennis star things can get really complicated. As the poster boy for a generation desperate to tick every box, Ben begins to suspect that the meaning of life may well reside in the things he's already doing - and a girl he used to know.
The unexpected death of the family patriarch throws every member of the Ullmann clan off course. Widow Dafna takes to bed for three months and when she finally returns to her job at the maternity hospital, she has little time for her children. Eldest son, Yair drops out of school and adopts a fatalist attitude, shutting out his siblings and girlfriend. His twin sister Maya, a talented musician, feels the most guilt and is forced to act as a family caregiver at the expense of career opportunities. Bullied at school, younger son Ido responds by obsessively filming himself with a video camera and attempting dangerous feats. The baby sister, Bar, is woefully neglected. Preoccupied with their own misery, the family is barely a family anymore. When another tragedy strikes, will they be able to support one another? Written by Sujit R. Varma
The film comprises six interconnected stories, one of them co-written with actress-screenwriter Iulia Lumânare. Interestingly, the feature recycles (and completes) The Christmas Gift and another, unreleased short film, New Year’s Eve. One of the protagonists is Ştefan Silvestru, the director of the national television station, who has to deal with a career-ending issue: an actress who appeared in a sketch to be broadcast on New Year’s Eve has defected the country. Silvestru’s son, Laurenţiu, who plans to defect by swimming across the Danube to Yugoslavia, is the protagonist of another story, all six of them exploring the atmosphere in Bucharest before the “end of the world”, or the fall of the regime.
A young girl stays with her estranged grandparents in the city while she waits for the results of her audition for an international performance group. Her grandparents welcome her, delighted about the chance to get to know their granddaughter better. While staying at the house, the girl gets to know her uncle, who suffers from a mysterious long-term lung illness and is mainly confined to bed. She also observes her grandmother's weird religious rituals, some involving a swimming pool in the basement. When the girl's father finds out that she is staying with his parents, he persuades his sister to visit the house to get her out, ending with a terrible tragedy.
Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlight.’ After impregnating a young actress he soon comes to regard her as a millstone round his neck. He stabs a friend to death and dies alone. ‘You are useless, mangy and wild, you beast, you crawl through the lowest boughs of the tree.’ The film takes youthful impetuousness and hatred of oppression as its subject and also ponders the cult of genius and sexual morals. Rainer Werner Fassbinder simultaneously plays both Baal and himself and is surrounded by many actors who were later to perform in his own films. After the film was broadcast on West German television, Brecht’s widow Helene Weigel prohibited any further screenings, arguing that the social circumstances engendering Baal’s rebelliousness had not been adequately explained.
A single mother and the man who has not been able to forget her since she was 23 years old. A woman who yearns to be a mother and a single father in her fifties who only thinks about her. A discouraged man who starts dating a driver who gives love advice on the radio. And a mature woman who comes from Miami looking for new experiences. A crazy and funny musical comedy where the characters will discover that it is never too late to be crazy again of love.
狄德利希·赫斯林是奈泽西小城造纸厂老板的儿子。他从小欺软怕硬,害怕权势,又追求权势。他爱在老师面前打小报告,以看到别人挨批评而高兴。上了寄宿学校后,他更多的接触到女孩。当他获得他的爱情后,却拒绝与之结婚,因为她还有另外一个追求者,因为被他认为不够纯洁。他也拿到了博士学位。但不是为了就职或进行学术研究,而是为了追求金钱势力。他父亲去世后,由他接替父亲当造纸厂的老板。他见风使舵,周旋于自由党人和社会民... 《臣仆》是亨利希·曼批判现实主义文学的代表作。导演试图通过影片作一次人的本性的揭露。通过巧妙的蒙太奇和画面的叠化,对“臣仆精神”进行了无情的讽刺。当表现狄德利希·赫斯林的奴性时,利用,利用了俯视镜头,把他低三下四跪近皇帝的样子缩成蛆虫般大小。表现他以势欺人时,又利用了仰视镜头,把他放大到巨人一般,将帝国时代奴颜卑膝,可鄙而危害社会的德国小市民的典型刻画地淋漓尽致,
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