During one fatal afternoon in an empty elementary school the two mothers of Armand (6) and Jon (6) get into a desperate fight to be believed when one son is accused of crossing boundaries against the other. All means are used, and soon a blend of madness, desire and obsession arises. Where the truth lies is impossible to know, and soon everything evolves less and less around the children, who we never meet, and more about the adults.
土耳其举重运动员奥运会冠军奈姆•苏莱曼诺古传记。
这部由电影制片人兼多媒体艺术家约翰·格里蒙普雷(代表作《双重特工》)创作的新纪录片堪称一部精心结构的电影随笔。影片以刚果及其首位民主选举的总理帕特里斯·卢蒙巴的谋杀为背景,融合了地缘政治、爵士音乐、冷战阴谋和殖民实践,是一部爆炸性的混合体。片中既有详尽的研究和数据,又在形式上绝对巧妙和自由。影片追踪了卢蒙巴的权力崛起以及殖民者对将国家控制权交给其公民的抵抗。同时,影片还记录了美国试图通过派遣爵士音乐家如妮娜·西蒙、杜克·艾灵顿、路易斯·阿姆斯特朗等人来影响该国的努力。这些音乐家来到刚果演奏,浑然不知他们不过是中情局阴谋的幌子。最终,这部影片充满了音乐和电影能量,同时对仍然拒绝被抹去的殖民幽灵发出了一声强烈的政治控诉“我控诉”。
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.
Runa, a 16-year-old Kurdish girl, escaped from Iraq to avoid the attacks of ISIS. Together with her family, she had been stuck on the Polish-Belorussian border before she eventually arrived in Poland. She had to grow up at an accelerated speed – after her mother’s death she became the head of her family. Now, she needs to take care of her four younger brothers and father, who cannot cope with the mounting difficulties. The film follows their uncertain fate, but gives a prominence to the portrayal of the teenager, an ordinary and extraordinary girl at the same time. Thanks to her animated drawings, the audience can discover more about her. The film is presented in the national and international competitions.
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.
人们总是难以抗拒《忧郁星期天》的悲伤情调,原来这首歌与一段复杂凄美的爱情故事有关。上世纪30年代的匈牙利首都布达佩斯的一个餐馆里,美丽的伊洛娜(艾丽卡·莫露珊 Erika Marozsán 饰)同时被两个男人深爱着。一个是餐厅老板,另一个是钢琴师。三个人都并不愿意改变现况,打破平衡,伊洛娜同时拥有两个男人的爱而深感平静幸福。钢琴师为她创作出《忧郁星期天》,他和餐厅也因此一举成名。 然而,汉斯的出现彻底毁灭了这一切。他曾经是一个无名小子,深深迷上《忧郁星期天》 的同时,更是成为伊洛娜的裙下之臣。汉斯向伊洛娜求婚,却被拒绝,满腔恨意的他如今成了军官,风光无限,正带着他蓄谋已久的复仇计划来到伊洛娜身边,给他们的生活以致命一击。爱、复仇与战争的故事,在布达佩斯纠结上演。
意大利米兰的瑞奇家族靠纺织业致富,在家长的寿宴上,爷爷将企业传给了儿子坦科雷德(加布里埃尔.费泽蒂 Gabriele Ferzetti 饰)和孙子爱德瓦多(弗拉维奥·帕伦蒂 Flavio Parenti 饰)。坦科雷德的俄国妻子艾玛(蒂尔达·斯维顿 Tilda Swin ton 饰)酷爱烹饪。在结识了儿子爱德瓦多的厨师朋友安东尼奥(爱德瓦多·加布瑞尔利尼 Edoardo Gabbriellini 饰)之后,艾玛被安东尼奥高超的烹饪手艺所吸引,情不自禁坠入爱河。不仅如此,艾玛还必须隐瞒她偶然发现女儿伊丽莎白(阿尔芭·洛尔瓦彻Alba Rohrwacher 饰)是同性恋的事实。与此同时,家族的事业也在变迁,尽管爱德瓦多独力反对出售家族企业,却还是无法抵挡资本全球化大潮的冲击,并购势在必行。在探讨商务的晚宴上,一个意外打破了艾玛苦心枯守的表面平静,她的灵魂就要破茧而出……
再过不久,贝茨(Tabrett Bethell 饰)和丈夫卡麦林(安迪·惠特菲尔德 Andy Whitfield 饰)就将迎来属于他们的孩子,两人完全沉浸在幸福的氛围之中。在回老家的路上,夫妻二人入住了一家汽车旅馆,而就在当天夜里,卡麦林绝望的发现大着肚子的贝茨失踪了。直觉告诉卡麦林,这一切都是旅馆搞的鬼,爱妻心切的他不顾警察的阻拦独自踏上了寻妻之路。 醒来的贝茨发现自己被困在了一间废旧的工厂里,同时,肚子上的伤口告诉她,孩子已经不知所踪。在工厂里,贝茨发现了许多和自己一样被绑架而来并且强制生产的妇女,母爱使然,她们决定团结一致,找到各自的孩子,逃出这噩梦般的地方。然而,随着行动的步步深入,贝茨发现自己似乎陷入了一个恐怖的阴谋之中。