故事发生在1953年的9月罗马尼亚的一个小村庄里,兰库(亚力山德鲁·波托西恩 Alexandru Potocean 饰)和玛拉(Meda Victor 饰)即将迎来他们盛大的婚礼,这一对男女是如此的相爱,除了做爱与结为夫妻,他们似乎再也无法找到什么更好的方式来传递他们的感情。然而,就在这大喜之时,传来了独裁者斯大林去世的消息,为了表达对他的祭奠,兰库和玛拉被告知他们必须取消婚礼。 对于兰库和玛拉来说,一个无关紧要的人的死亡怎么能够阻挡他们的爱情?一场无声婚礼应运而生,这里的无声代表了彻底的静默,没有语言,亦没有碰撞,拉扯,咀嚼所带来的任何声响。对强权和独裁的反抗带给了村民们久违的快乐,却也让这特殊的婚礼最终演变成为了一场葬礼。
宝贝·珍妮·汉德森(贝蒂·戴维斯 Bette Davis 饰)曾是风靡一时的童星,整个汉德森家都依靠她的收入过活,这使她的性格变得日益扭曲和跋扈。比起珍妮,作为姐姐的布兰奇·汉德森(琼·克劳馥 Joan Crawford 饰)不过是一只不足挂齿的丑小鸭,不仅妹妹对自己视若无睹,就连父亲对她都大呼小叫态度恶劣,忍气吞声的布兰奇在心中埋下了仇恨的种子。成年后的姐妹两地位发生了逆转,珍妮的愚蠢和怪癖让她逐渐过气,而颇有姿色的布兰奇倒是在演艺圈获得了空前的成功,尽管布兰奇处处提携珍妮,但珍妮无法平衡内心的落差,总是想方设法和姐姐作对。
一场突如其来的车祸使得布兰奇永远失去了双腿,珍妮也因此变得疯疯癫癫,布兰奇想把珍妮送进医院,珍妮却想消抹布兰奇的存在,彻底的取代她的位置。最亲近的两个女人在一处隐秘的别墅里开始了相互折磨的生活,而在这生活之下,似乎还隐藏着什么不可告人的秘密。
Magdalena and Maria are two twin sisters who were separated at birth and know nothing of the other’s existence. Maria runs away from the boarding school in which she was brought up and finds work as a cabaret performer in the cafés of Marseilles. Magdalena lives with her adopted parents and works in an art gallery. The two sisters are joined by an invisible bond which draws them towards the same tragic conclusion. Director Werner Schroeter has acquired a reputation as an experimentalist filmmaker, hailed by some as an underrated genius, reviled by others for being a peddler of self-indulgent kitsch. Deux is arguably Schroeter’s most ambitious, unsettling and repulsive work to date. The director certainly wastes no time in alienating his audience; from the first ten minutes of the film it is clear this is not going to be an easy ride. The narrative cuts haphazardly between seemingly unconnected events, alternating between realism and stylised fantasy dream sequences, periodically shocking the spectator with graphic images of lesbian sex and a woman being slowly disembowelled. Having several actors playing multiple parts only adds to the sense of artifice and utter confusion, which is a pity as there is manifestly a lot of great acting talent on show – not least of which is Isabelle Huppert. The film’s sheer relentless grotesqueness and self-indulgence is so extreme, so unbridled, so stomach-churningly provocative, that it is hard to take any of it seriously.
Straight Shooting is landmark in the history of the Western. The first feature directed by Ford, it revived the career of Harry Carey who gives a rough and tumble performance here as a hired gun who turns on his employers to defend an innocent farmer and his family.
Fitness instructor Julia is down on her luck, trying to make her baby boot camp a thriving business. To make ends meet, she becomes a part-time nanny for a single widowed father. Trouble is, she knows nothing about taking care of children.