A sexy black woman, Foxy Brown, seeks revenge when her government agent boyfriend Michael is shot down by gangsters led by the kinky couple of Steve Elias and Miss Katherine
弗兰克(罗伯特·卡莱尔 Robert Carlyle 饰)是面包店里的烤面包师父,多年以前,他的妻子不幸永远的离开了他,弗兰克一直生活在妻子逝世的阴影里走不出去。一次偶然中,弗兰克遭遇了一场车祸,对方是一个名叫史蒂夫(约翰·古德曼 John Goodman 饰)的男人。 史蒂夫告诉弗兰克,自己正准备去兑现一个40年前许下的约定,去见自己阔别已久的青梅竹马,可现如今这个状况令史蒂夫无法如约而至,于是他拜托弗兰克代替自己去见青梅竹马,向她解释事件的来龙去脉。抵达了目的地后,弗兰克并没有找到那个女孩,然而,他却被舞蹈这项奇妙的运动深深吸引。
A majestic film in which two stories easily fit. One about a filmmaker who is a little like Diaz himself and wrestles with the completion of his film and with greedy film festival programmers. And one about a religious leader. Also a little like Diaz himself? The films of Lav Diaz often tell serious epic stories, but they are still not entirely free from humour and satire. For instance in this film, Diaz takes the mickey out of festival programmers and also sketches a picture of himself that is not entirely free from self-mockery. The film has two or three stories (also a film in the film) and one of them focuses on the filmmaker Homer, who very much resembles Lav Diaz himself. The tortured filmmaker wrestles with completing his film. Despite pleas from those around him and from eager programmers, he continues to refuse to regard his film as finished. Alongside the story about a nun in the film on which Homer is working, there’s another story about the religious leader Father Turbico. Turbico leads a sect in the countryside that is primarily made up of young women. When one of the women wants to leave the sect, a dramatic situation ensues. By telling the stories in parallel, similarities become visible between Homer’s struggle with cinema and Turbico's struggle with faith.
After the sudden death of his wife, a grieving father of a severely non-verbal autistic girl seeks experimental therapy where he unknowingly rents an Air B&B with a haunted history. This stirs his daughter's psychic abilities along with his personal demons. The result is a story full of suspense, tension, empathy and a powerful metaphor about the Noise in all of us.