An English girl has her life uprooted by her mum the last year of High School. As if it wasn't hard enough leaving behind what is familiar, this small American town holds past memories for her as she spent years there as a child. Although, the hazy recollections and past history are only a small piece in the uncertainty of teenagehood.
“Sangen Om Den Eldröda Blomman” ( “Song Of The Scarlet Flower” ) was a recent and remarkable silent surprise for this Herr Von; the oeuvre is an excellent Herr Stiller silent film that this German count watched in a newly restored and tinted copy. It combines the well-known aesthetics, technical improvements and artistic merits for which the Nordic director was known and praised since those early silent times till today. The film tells of the merry and carefree love life of young Olof ( Herr Lars Hanson ) a woodsman who during his search for true love, seduces many frauleins ( just like this German aristocrat… well, not exactly because the purpose of this Herr Von’s seduction of rich fräulein heiresses are their great fortunes… ). He will suffer disappointment and deception, all those problems that turn up in any loving relationship. Finally he will find responsibility and maturity, learning during his particular quest that his actions always have consequences in different degrees to the people around him. This Herr Von can describe “Sangen Om…” as a kind of coming of age film, the special introspective growth toward maturity of a free and easy youngster. As this German count said before, the film displays Stiller’s characteristic artistic virtues. ; in the first part of the film, we can see elements of comedy, not exactly like the comedy of intrigues in other Stiller films, but humor of a more cheerful sort, highlighting the self-involvement of our hero. Olof ‘s frivolous flirtations with the different girls eventually turn romantic and then turn into drama. There is conflict in the troubled relationship between Olof and his father and later with the father of his beloved. The beautiful and wild natural landscapes of Norrland and northern Sweden lend the tale a certain power and is characteristic of Herr Stiller’s other silents where Nature emerges as an important character in the story. This is strongly reflected throughout the film but especially during the frantic scene wherein Olof descends into the troubled waters of a river, a beautiful metaphor for the hardships that our hero has to endure until he finds himself. “Sangen Om Den Eldröda Blomman” is an excellent, beautiful film, a solid, technically perfect and intricate production of 1919 that demonstrates once again the importance of Herr Stiller for silent film history.
华金(莱昂纳多·斯巴拉格利亚 Leonardo Sbaraglia 饰)是双腿瘫痪的残疾人,终日要与轮椅相伴。然而,华金同时也是一位经验非常丰富的工程技术人员,精通机械学,还拥有着比常人灵敏数倍的听力,凭借着自己出类拔萃的专业知识,华金将自己的生活安排的井井有条。 一天,一位美丽的单身母亲波塔(克拉拉·拉戈 Clara Lago 饰)带着她6岁的小女儿贝蒂(Uma Salduende 饰)前来投宿,母子两人的到来让华金原本苍白的生活变得生动鲜活起来。一次偶然中,华金得知了自己的房子里住着一伙劫匪,他们正打算利用在房子地下挖隧道的方式来实行他们抢劫银行的计划。
21世纪初,一颗隶属于前苏联的卫星突然出现故障,随时可能坠毁于美国本土,这令美国太空总署(NASA)的大小官员分外紧张。NASA打算派出太空人前往外太空修复卫星,但是却没有找到任何通晓当年技术的技术人员。所谓病急乱投医,几个业已退休的老家伙就这样浮出水面。他们分别是弗兰克·柯文(克林特·伊斯特伍德 Clint Eastwood 饰)、霍克·霍金斯(汤米·李·琼斯 Tommy Lee Jones 饰)、杰瑞·奥尼尔(唐纳德·萨瑟兰 Donald Sutherland 饰)以及坦克·苏利文(詹姆斯·加纳 James Garner 饰)。在上世纪50年代,他们原本会是首批飞向太空的队员,却因为计划的调整而抱憾终生。如今,那颗捣乱的卫星终于能令他们一圆飞上太空的梦想…… 本片荣获2001年日本《电影旬报》最佳外语片奖、2001年日本每日电影最佳外语片奖。
Somewhere on isolated mountainous plain. Johann has taken over his father’s farm, devoting all his time and energy to his work. Surrounded by a struggling community and a natural landscape that has taught him all he knows, his heritage is his entire life. As autumn goes and winter comes, a barn burns to the ground and jeopardizes the fragile balance of the farm's survival. The story of a man trying to love the world he belongs to one last time, as hard as he can, before it sinks into darkness.
朱丽叶特(Kristin Scott Thomas 饰)亲手杀死了自己只有6岁的儿子,她被判入狱15年,期间丈夫与之离婚,父母和她断绝关系,只有小妹妹莉偷偷思念着疼爱自己的姐姐。 15年后,朱丽叶特出狱,暂住莉(Elsa Zylberstein 饰)的家中。因其犯罪背景,朱丽叶特在求职过程中处处碰壁,妹夫卢克(Serge Hazanavicius 饰)也对她心存芥蒂。随着时间推移,冰冷自闭的朱丽叶特逐渐和妹妹一家人相处融洽,工作步入正轨,也有了心仪之人。这时,莉却无意中得知了姐姐亲手杀死孩子的真相…… 本片荣获2009英国学院奖最佳非英语片奖、2008柏林国际电影节天主教人道精神奖、2008欧洲电影节最佳女主角奖。