本片起用大量素人演员,故事剧情建构在片中演出者的真实人生上,但写实之外,导演更点入了许多神奇超现实的荒诞色彩,夜晚现身的俄罗斯蓝眼猫,缓缓升空的火箭,包含诸多暗示和寓意,搭配壮丽湖泊及美如人间天堂的村景,使得电影中处处充满诗意和平静,被喻为该年度威尼斯影展最大惊喜。 俄罗斯北部一座与世隔绝的岛上,一名驾驶着快艇穿梭于湖中的邮差,便是村民与外界联系的唯一办法。尽管湖的对岸就是文明世界,村子裡的人们仍维持这最简单纯朴的自给自足生活,村里没有政府机构,也没有社会救助和就业需求,邮差成了他们和外面世界沟通的唯一桥梁。每天邮差送信到每一户人家,和不同村民聊这不同的闲话,他关心独居的酒鬼老人,更暗恋着这里的寡妇艾瑞娜,经常照顾她的儿子。然而,艾瑞娜却选择带着儿子到城市工作,而快艇的马达也被人偷了,无法正常工作,他生活的存在和意义被打乱… 影片导演荣获第71届威尼斯电影节最佳导演殊荣。
亨利(伊利亚·奈舒勒 Ilya Naishuller 饰)在某场事故中失去了记忆,连自己的名字都不记得了,他只知道眼前的这个美丽的女人艾斯戴尔(海莉·贝内特 Haley Bennett 饰)是自己的妻子。然而很快,艾斯戴尔就被一个名叫阿康(丹尼拉·科兹洛夫斯基 Danila Kozlovskiy 饰)的男人给绑架了。 阿康是一个野心勃勃的邪恶的男人,他拥有自己的军队和军火库,人生的目标就是统治世界。在全无记忆的状态下,亨利必须在时限内奋力营救自己的妻子,想要置他于死地的人貌似很多,可亨利也不知道他们究竟是为了什么。亨利可以相信的,只有一个叫做吉米(沙尔托·科普雷 Sharlto Copley 饰)的男人,但是这个神秘的男人真的可以信赖吗?
Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter. Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...
翻拍自1957年Sidney Lumet的12 angry men。 一个车臣男孩被指控谋杀自己俄罗斯军官的养父,所有证人和证据均对他不利,12位陪审团成员对此展开了讨论,他们将决定男孩今后的命运。 12名陪审员来自不同的行业,不同的种族。刚开始的时候,每个人心不在焉, 对这起案件并不在乎,除了一个物理研究员之外,他们都认为男孩有罪。但是,物理研究员唤起了其他11个人对生命的尊重,他们开始认真讨论这起案件,讲述各自生活中的故事和经历,在决定男孩命运的同时,也审视自己的内心世界。 最终,当他们达成一致意见的时候,陪审团主持人(Nikita Mikhalkov 饰)的决定却出乎意料……
In Skazka, Alexander Sokurov weaves digital magic to create a phantasmagorical vision of the Afterlife, worthy of Dante. But wait: are we in the limbo of Purgatory, or a paradoxical Paradise reserved for notorious men of world history? Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and more: all are present and accounted for. Since they exist only as archival media images, each figure comes in a serial set. In the blackest of political comedies, these fallen men beg, in turn, to be let through Heaven’s Gate – but the angels who peek through never open wide. Little wonder, as the former leaders wander listlessly, bitching (in a Babel of multiple languages) about each other’s clothes, hair and hygiene. In what is effectively a work of animation, Sokurov has pulled together many talents into an extraordinary technological feat. It blends pictorial elements from art history to form an endlessly unfolding landscape, replete with fog and ghostly armies of the sacrificed victims of history. Announced as Sokurov’s last film, Skazka is an inspired riff on the high culture of Peter Greenaway mixed with the low culture of mash-up artists Soda_Jerk. Can we now expect some entrepreneur to bring us the interactive Skazka video game?
一场毫无征兆的现代战争一触即发,无数大兵、先进武器聚集一地,战事愈演愈烈,导弹在天空中呼啸而过,子弹像雨点般的肆意飞散,形成了一道不可逾越的战争火线,而这道火线恰好阻隔了一对母子。年轻貌美的母亲不顾一切、试图只身穿越火线,救出年幼的儿子,但无奈于敌方火力封锁严密,而且她心中的机器怪物也是万般阻隔,这个冒险之旅对于一个女人来说就像一场噩梦,幸有一队勇敢的大兵舍身保护,但她能否克服千难万险,打败心魔,营救出儿子……
高尔察克(康斯坦丁·哈宾斯基 Konstantin Khabensky 饰)是俄国海军上将,他有着卓越的将才,指挥战舰在一战中屡建战功,并受到亲王亲自授勋。年轻英俊,风华正茂,大好前途在他面前展开,爱情也自然如约到来,在一次酒会上,高尔察克遇见了美丽的安娜(Elizaveta Boyarskaya 饰),可惜她当时已嫁作人妇,但两个人难以掩饰彼此吸引,安娜不惜为他离开自己的丈夫。时局动荡,沙皇倒台,十月革命爆发,惯于忠诚的高尔察克在内战中执着尽力,也无法抵抗白色政权的瓦解,高尔察克遭到出卖,被苏维埃政权秘密处决,而安娜被苏维埃政府关押了37年,最终释放,她对高尔察克仍至死不渝。