本片改编自罗马尼亚神学家伊利亚德的同名小说。1938年,年逾七十的哲学教授多米尼克•马泰(蒂姆•罗斯 Tim Roth 饰)本打算自杀,却被闪电突然击中。严重烧伤的多米尼克得到了罗马尼亚医生斯坦库里斯库教授(布鲁诺•岗茨 Bruno Ganz 饰)的救治,痊愈后,多米尼克竟发现自己返老还童,并分裂出另外人格。不仅如此,多米尼克还具有梦中学习、透视、意念移物等特异功能。为了躲避纳粹医生鲁道夫(安德烈•汉尼克André Hennicke 饰)的追踪,多米尼克化名辗转于瑞士、罗马尼亚、马耳他、印度等地,直到二战结束。六十年代,某次登山时多米尼克遇见一名叫做维拉尼卡的女子(亚历山德拉•玛利亚•拉拉 Alexandra Maria Lara 饰),与他年轻时的未婚妻劳拉一模一样。维拉尼卡及朋友山中遇险,被多米尼克救治后便拥有了梦中追溯语言起始的能力,却因此加速衰老。多米尼克一方面希望维拉尼卡助他完成语言及时间起源的著作,一方面又不愿看到爱人因此早夭,矛盾中痛苦不已…… 本片获独立精神奖最佳摄影提名。
罗伯特·德尼罗、Machine Gun Kelly、约翰·马尔科维奇将主演新动作惊悚片《河水冲洗我》(Wash Me in the River,暂译),Migos的Quavo也在商谈,有望出演。据称这是一部《老无所依》风格的片子,讲述一个鸦片药物成瘾者正在戒断中,并想找致使自己未婚妻死亡的药贩子复仇,而两个警察紧跟在他身后。 资深制片人Randall Emmett执导,这是他的第二部导演长片作品。
George Harvey Bone is a composer in early 20th century London, who is under stress because he is writing a piano concerto. Due to this stress, he gets black outs when ever he hears dissonances. When he finds himself after the black out in a different quarter of the town, he returns home, to read in the paper that somebody in that quarter was murdered. Asking help from a doctor at Scotland Yard he is assured that he has nothing to do with it, but he is advised to cut back in his work and get some relaxation like other, ordinary people. At a cheap musical he meets Netta, a singer, who inspires him for a new motive for his concerto. But Netta discovers that this motive could also be used as a song for her. The song gets sold, and she hangs around George to get more songs out of him. George believes that Netta is in love with him, and gets in an argument with his girlfriend Barbara, the daughter of Lord Henry, who wants the concerto for one of his souares. George has another black out, ...
天真甜美的十四岁少女海莉(艾伦·佩吉 Ellen Page 饰)在网络上认识了三十二岁的摄影师杰夫(帕特里克·威尔森 Patrick Wilson 饰),二人相约在咖啡馆见面,相谈甚欢。海莉主动要求去杰夫家,让他为自己拍摄艺术照片,杰夫欣然从命。聊天喝酒之后,杰夫突然眩 晕倒地,醒来发现自己竟被五花大绑。原来海莉是有备而来,就是要惩罚在网络上勾引未成年少女的恋童癖。海莉在屋中搜寻杰夫进行不法行为的证据,并为他实施了阉割手术。中途邻居太太(吴珊卓 Sandra Oh 饰)来访,也被海莉成功蒙混过关。随着海莉惩罚计划的一步步展开,杰夫的真面目也逐渐浮出水面……
本片被提名英国独立电影奖最佳外国独立制片电影,并获西班牙加泰罗尼亚电影节最佳剧本、最佳电影及最受观众喜爱影片奖。