尼克松(弗兰克·兰格拉 Frank Langella 饰)在水门事件后下台,却始终未曾对公众承认过自己的错误,欠美国人民一个道歉。福斯特(麦克·辛 Michael Sheen 饰)是一个在澳大利亚主持脱口秀的英国花花公子,在直播中看见尼克松搭乘直升飞机离开白宫时萌生采访他的意念并决定付诸实践。 没有人对福斯特抱有期望,没有电视公司愿意出钱购买他的采访,朋友约翰(马修·麦克费登 Matthew Macfadyen 饰)找来业内著名的新闻人鲍勃(奥利弗·普莱特 Oliver Platt 饰)和对尼克松研究颇深的詹姆斯来组成一个小组,开始进行资料挖掘。福斯特自己掏钱付了头笔的采访费,获得了与尼克松见面的机会,并且敲定了连续采访的日子。小组拼命准备问题以便逼尼克松在采访中认罪。尼克松的智囊团也在忙碌地准备应答,他们从不把福斯特放在眼内。正式采访开始,福斯特招架不住尼克松滔滔不绝的自辩,这一切让福斯特破釜沉舟,寻找突破口……
麦蒂(克里斯汀·斯图尔特 Kristen Stewart 饰)是一个12岁的小女孩,她一生中最大的爱好就是和热爱极限运动的父亲一起外出攀岩,在这方面,小小年纪的麦蒂已经是专家级的选手了。一次意外中,麦蒂的父亲从岩壁上跌落,身受重伤,无法动弹的父亲和巨额的医疗费让这个家庭的幸福时光画上了句点。 眼看着家庭就要崩溃,古灵精怪的麦蒂想出了一个“快速敛财”的妙招——抢银行。麦蒂找来了好友古斯(马克斯·希尔莱耶 Max Thieriot 饰)和奥斯汀(科宾·布鲁 Corbin Bleu 饰)帮忙,他们一个是电脑高手,一个是机械专家,两位好友的帮助加上自身高超的攀爬技巧,麦蒂的“犯罪计划”能否获得成功呢?
Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport both in their professional and daily lives between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps. The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial. -Steve Grayson my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty. - Jonathan Rosenbaum