玛丽(朱迪斯•戴维斯 Judith Davis 饰)从乡下来到法国里昂国家音乐学院进修钢琴演奏,借住在童年好友艾玛(伊希尔•勒•贝斯柯 Isild Le Besco 饰)的公寓里。儿时很害羞少语的艾玛长大后变得成熟自信,让玛丽深深着迷,产生了不一样的感情。玛丽所在的学院学期末考核要求学生必须弹奏舒曼的狂欢节外加两首自选歌曲,因为课程上高标准的要求,玛丽不得不牺牲很多娱乐时间来严格练习钢琴。因而她大部分时间都是在艾玛陪伴下度过,二人分享着彼此生活的快乐,感情日益深厚。一次舞会上玛丽受到陌生男子的骚扰无法脱身时,艾玛及时相救,并给与安慰,使玛丽倍感温暖,二人的爱欲一触即发。但艾玛对玛丽日益强烈的控制欲却让事情走向了不可控制的方向….
Earl Pilcher, Jr. 在阿肯色州经营一家设备租赁公司,与妻子、孩子和父母住在一起,很少摘下他的 gimme 帽子。他的母亲死了,留下一封信解释他不是她的亲生儿子,而是一个死于分娩的黑人妇女的儿子。另外,他在芝加哥有一个同父异母的兄弟雷,她希望他去拜访。厄尔前往此行,最初受到雷和雷的儿子维吉尔的冷遇。他生母的姐姐 T 姨妈是一位年迈的失明女族长,她带着 Earl 并坚持要家人向他敞开心扉。
Tú me abrasas is an adaptation of “Sea Foam”, a chapter from Cesare Pavese’s “Dialoghi con Leucò” published in 1947. The ancient Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomartis meet beside the sea and have a conversation about love and death. Sappho is said to have thrown herself into the ocean from lovesickness. Britomartis apparently tumbled off a cliff and into the water while fleeing from a man. Together, the two discuss the stories and images that have emerged around them to try and understand, at least for a moment, the bittersweet nature of desire. The film adapts not only the text but also footnotes and gaps in the story. For example, the fact that, in 1950, a desperate Pavese committed suicide in a hotel room with this book by his side. Or that Sappho’s poems have survived only in fragments. Or that sea foam is historically and scientifically associated with fertility and bacteria, that is, with life itself. “Everything dies in the sea and comes back to life,” says Britomartis. Tú me abrasas introduces new readings and translations that go beyond the myths by Pavese and Sappho.
A village in Ukraine, near the Russian border. The only thing that slightly disturbs the peace there is the occasional death of an elderly person. That is also why Anatoly returns there: to take care of his dying mother.
简•奥斯汀(安妮·海瑟薇 Anne Hathaway 饰)的一生是否如她的文字那样充满曲折的过程和完满的结局?《成为简》用传记方式描述她的一生:她的母亲竭力为她撮合婚事,对象是上层社会的有钱人。但是简不接受没有爱情的婚姻,认为女人要靠自己的能力去养活自身。于是,她拒绝贵族瓦斯莱先生的求婚,爱上了心灵相通的汤姆•勒弗罗伊(詹姆斯·麦卡沃伊 James McAvoy 饰)。 好事多磨,有人从中作梗,导致汤姆家人并不赞成二人婚事,汤姆决定携简私奔。但是这样一来,汤姆的经济来源就会被切断,简亦将面临着世俗的压力和贫困的生活。到底二人在私奔路上会走得多远?会不会有美满的结局?