Upon their mother’s death, siblings Jenny and Marshall return to renovate her crumbling motel, The Jolly Monkey. But as they work, a deadly force tied to their family’s dark past emerges, forcing them to face terrifying truths if they want to survive.
what motivated me up to the new director's festival to catch 'martin frost' tonight was the brutal review that it got yesterday from the lead critic of the new york times, brutal dismissal, to be more accurate, 'the less said about (it) the better', she said, and i figured that any movie able to teach Ms Dargis the virtue of silence for even a few column inches would be worth the trip.
and worth the trip it was. we are brought into a paradise of limpidly beautiful visual textures. the oaken rhythms of a country house ensconced in a springtime parkland of luxuriant trees and luminous skies bestow the soothing natural blessing needed by the main character, martin frost (David Thewlis), a writer rubbed raw by the mechanics of finishing a novel in new york city. (Thewlis makes palpable the casualty of intrapsychic machinery sawed into daemonic reverb against the banausic hive). then paradise morphs into purgatory, leavened comedically, in Dante's sense, by the postmodern angelic visitations of Claire (Irene Jacobs) and Anna (Sophie Auster).
unfortunately, to my taste, the verbal dimensions of the film are flaccid, the logic more fanciful than imaginative, the narrative arc crippled by some irredeemably creaky plotting, especially at the crucial initiation of the relationship between martin and Claire where the seeds of common sense are thrown to the magpies of theatricality.
but so beguiling is the willful vulnerability of auster's fantasy, and the edgy interplay that it potentiates between Thewlis and Jacobs, and the camera, and later Sophie Auster, and the broad comedy of a rural everyman (Michael Imperioli), that it is very pleasant to be carried along on the visual foam of uncertain sensual delight, eddying into a feeling that this film's oddly louche light touch is uniquely adept at tracing some grave lineaments of the human heart.
go innocently.
Fortuna, a 14-year-old Ethiopian girl, has had no news of her parents since arriving in Lampedusa, Italy. Together with other refugees, she is given shelter for the winter in a Swiss catholic hospice at an altitude of over 2000 meters. While they wait for their fate to be decided by the Swiss authorities, Fortuna meets Kabir, a 26-year-old African refugee, and falls desperately in love. Their relationship develops in secret, till the day Kabir disappears.
Molly Price is a woman on the run, but when her oldest daughter finds a Ouija board and attempts to communicate with her deceased father, she invites the spirit of an ancient witch into her soul and puts the entire family at risk.
A seamstress gets tangled in her own thread after stealing a briefcase from a drug deal gone bad. In an escalating game of cat and mouse, her different choices lead to drastically different outcomes along the way.
故事发生在第二次世界大战期间,美国飞行员大卫(哈里森·福特 Harrison Ford 饰)被派往英国伦敦驻守,在战乱中,大卫邂逅了名为玛格丽特(莱斯利-安·唐恩 Lesley-Anne Down 饰)英国护士,美丽又温柔的玛格丽特一下子就俘获了大卫的心,虽然玛格丽特已经有了自己的家庭和孩子,但这并没有成为他们两人继续来往的阻碍。
玛格丽特的丈夫保罗(克里斯托弗·普卢默 Christopher Plummer 饰)在英国情报处工作,在一项特殊的任务中,他受命潜入德军总部,而大卫此时也正在执行轰炸德军总部的任务,两人相遇了。在并不知道彼此的真实身份的情况下,大卫和保罗成为了这场行动中唯二的幸存者,他们必须相互合作彼此帮助才能够顺利的完成任务。
After her father is involved in a serious accident, 11-year-old Yuna’s life is turned upside down. Reunited with her mother, Yuna faces the possibility of a drastic change, which she refuses to face. Miwako Van Weyenberg’s debut feature is a tender and heartfelt coming-of-age drama.
律师比利(罗伯特·约翰·伯克 Robert John Burke 饰)是一个体型硕大的胖子,他一直都在减肥,但从来没有成功。作为一名颠倒黑白的律师,他和检察官及法官的暗地勾结让他获得了不小的成功。一次交通意外中,比利撞死了一个吉普赛老妇人。在法庭上,借由职务之便,比利通过非法的渠道获得了无罪判决,对受害者亲人的愤怒和悲痛视若无睹。从此之后,好运似乎降临在了比利的身上,一直以来令他困扰的体重居然开始下降,同时,他还可以毫无顾忌的敞开肚子品尝人间美食。事态的发展逐渐超出了可控制的范围,短短几天之内,比利已变成一个骨瘦嶙峋的苍老男子,并且他的体重仍然在持续的下降,而参与不公正审判的同僚们也都出现了不同的病变,这令他明白,吉普赛人的诅咒并非空穴来风,而为了求生,他必须找到下诅咒的那个吉普赛人,并且请求他的原谅。
Two cases and two timelines intertwine in this psychological thriller. Juan Carlos Medina reinvigorates the tropes of classic police films with atmospheric cinematography and breathtaking scenes of high-voltage tension.
A 70-year old man abducts his dementia-suffering wife from her retirement home and goes on the run from both the police and his adult children. Starring Sandra Prinsloo, Ian Roberts, Ashley De Lange, Luke Volker, Erica Wessels, Amy Louise Wilson, Evan Hengst Movie is made in South Africa.
Mumbai-set arthouse take on a love story is produced by UK companies Wellington Films and Anna Griffin’s Griffin Pictures, and coproduced by Sweden’s Filmgate Films.