简介: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.
简介:Kip Polyard is an obsessive-compulsive shut-in whose antiseptic world is invaded by Celine, the beautiful seductress who moves in next door to Kip's rent-controlled Manhattan apartment. Kip and Celine begin a tentative love affair that turns passionate and then deadly, as Celine's secrets turn Kip's perfectly organized life upside-down.
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简介:Welcome Home, To The End of The World...欢迎归来,来到这世界的尽头...改编自霍华‧菲力普‧洛夫克莱夫特著名恐怖小说之一「克苏鲁的呼唤」,讲述一名历史教授回到偏远的家乡,却发现自家血脉所隐藏的惊人秘密!剧情简介流著相同血脉的你,注定逃脱不了的命运!一名西雅图历史学教授,回到偏远乡听取过世母亲的遗愿,当他回到久违的家乡,见到儿时一同长大的好友,阴森的亲戚与古怪的大宅,以及眾人的怪异言行,让他感到不安而害怕。他追踪母亲留下的神秘讯息,却发现家族血脉所隐藏的惊人秘密!本片改编自著名恐怖大师霍华‧菲力普‧洛夫克莱夫特(H.P. Lovecraft)的小说「克苏鲁的呼唤(The Call of Cthulhu)」,洛夫克莱夫特一生命运乖戾,体弱多病、家庭破产、精神崩溃而无法完成学业、父母相继病逝,最后更因癌症而痛苦病逝,从未出版过任何著作,但他的作品在爱好者的口耳相传下而受到欢迎,史蒂芬金也是他的书迷。他最有名的作品便是「克苏鲁神话」(Cthulhu Mytho),描写一名远古邪神(克苏鲁)远在人类文明诞生之前,便寄居在地球上。不明原因让他们而陷入沈眠,被封存在深海或是南极中,一直等待复甦的那一刻重新奴役人类这种下等人种。这部作品除被作家、动漫家拿来演绎、改编之外,不少电玩也将之作为参考资料。
简介:富家小子查理·巴特利(安东·叶利钦 Anton Yelchin 饰)同时是一位点子奇多的中学生,因此履出状况的他常常被各个私立学校拒绝甚至开除,迫于无奈,父母只好让查理进入一所鱼龙混杂的公立学校念书。初来乍到的查理难免被学校里的小霸王欺负得鼻青脸肿,然而很快,鬼马的查理就为自己的小聪明找到了的用武之地。当发现身边的很多同学都需要找人倾诉和寻求开导时,查理摇身变作校园里的心理咨询师,在男生寝室门口挂起了自己的小招牌,专门倾听同学们的苦恼,并给出意见甚至是草率地开起了药房。这个小小心理师的角色不仅给查理创造了一笔不小的财富,也让他成了新学校的宠儿。然而,看似单纯的校园生活可并非想象中那么简单,查理的“小生意”是否一帆风顺,又会有什么麻烦等着他呢?