简介:It is a great film by a great director.Kira Muratova has never been given her due in the Soviet and post-Soviet Russia.In the Long Good Bye she depicts a seemingly banal story of a jealous and possessive mother (brilliantly acted by Zinaida Sharko) and her poor aloof and lonely son (the only cinematic role by the talented O. Vladimirsky). The story - which is nothing extraordinary in itself - grows into the wonderful and frightening analysis of alienation between genders and generations on the background of the even more frighteningly bleak and dehumanized Soviet reality.Kira Muratova shows the tiny details of everyday Soviet life,and, again , banal as they are ,they are a hair-raising horror.The dialogue is deliberately laconic and void of any sense, showing the ever-growing people's inability to communicate and understand each other.The sound track ( by another under-estimated talent, Oleg Karavaichuk)adds to the atmosphere of hopeless and meaningless existence.Of course,Sasha (the name of the protagonist),will leave his despotic ( but loving!) mother sooner or later, but where for (c)
简介:智利影史十部最佳影片之一. 和一样都是60年代拉美新电影运动的代表作.A young boy mourns the loss of his newborn brother when the baby dies. At the baby's wake, the child is given paper wings to symbolize his union with the angels of heaven. The funeral takes place after the wake turns into a drunken affair. When the baby's paper wings are left behind, the boy tries to give the wings back to his dead brother for fear the child will not go to heaven. The young boy also saves a pigeon from being tortured at the hands of other sadistic children in this feature heavy with symbolic and religious overtones.
简介:贾斯汀(詹妮弗·安妮斯顿 Jennifer Aniston 饰)和菲尔(约翰·C·赖利 John C. Reilly 饰)是一对结婚多年的夫妻,两人的感情早已名存实亡,菲尔沉迷于毒品和酒精之中,整天和损友布达(蒂姆·布雷克·尼尔森 Tim Blake Nelson 饰)厮混在一起。毒品的副作用让菲尔患上了不育症,贾斯汀想要成为一个母亲的愿望被无情的剥夺了。一个名叫霍尔顿(杰克·吉伦哈尔 Jake Gyllenhaal 饰)的年轻男孩的出现吸引了贾斯汀的注意,霍尔顿特立独行的生活方式让贾斯汀深深的为其着迷,随着时间的推移,他们之间的关系终于超越了单纯的友谊。布达发现了贾斯汀和霍尔顿之间的私情,于是开始了对于贾斯汀的漫长的敲诈,更糟的是,在此节骨眼上,贾斯汀发现自己有喜了。
简介:In this murder mystery musical, trouble comes in pairs on a cargo ship, when two brawlers come aboard and two female stowaways are subsequently discovered.
简介:A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself “already dead.”
简介:To chase her dream of going to school in her remote Himalayan village, a feisty paraplegic girl locks horns with her tradition-bound grandfather.Sprightly Chuskit's dream of going to school is cut short when she is rendered a paraplegic after an accident. She's confined to life indoors in the company of her strict grandfather, Dorje. Chuskit continues to harbor hopes of school but Dorje tries to make her understand that school can't handle her needs. As life at home gets harder, her battle with her grandfather exacerbates. Caught in between their struggle are Chuskit's parents and her enterprising brother who want to respect the old world views that Dorje represents, but also want to keep Chuskit's spirit alive. Chuskit will have to get her grandfather to yield or she will have to accept the reality he has chosen for her.