简介:Hampus and Adrian's relationship has gone down increasingly destructive paths and during one fateful discussion it all ends. Hampus and Adrian are no more, but in some way they have to go on living. A healing process divided into stages of desperate attempts to reunite as well as rebounds, which sometimes push them further apart and sometimes closer together.
简介:The film centers around a girl who inherits a miniature horse that develops an unlikely friendship with her half-sister's Jack Russell Terrier, who takes to riding on the horse's back.
简介:A group of insane asylum inmates flee a broken-down bus and occupy a nearby farmhouse. As they form a collective threaded by bizarre exercises and slapstick setups, the film spirals out into a freewheeling comedy of disorder, told with unusual verve and intensity, and featuring a dissonant, if deranged, soundtrack by free jazz innovator Ornette Coleman and his trio.
简介:这部音乐剧DVD取材于耶稣的生平事迹,韦伯创新地将严肃的宗教故事和前卫的摇滚音乐联系起来,是一部艺术表现非常大胆、思想性也极为深刻的作品。如果说《约瑟夫与神奇彩衣》是对圣经故事的图解,那么《万世巨星》从表面上看简直就是对传统的颠覆与反动:上帝的儿子耶稣不再时刻带着圣哲的光环,他有软弱,有动摇,更多的人性代替了神性;犹大卖主也不是出自贪婪,而是出自上帝安排的命运,自杀后的犹大穿着白袍带领一个天使唱诗班向耶稣提出几个哲学问题,耶稣竟然也不知道答案。细心的读者不难看出这样的情节安排和电影《耶稣基督的最后诱惑》的相似之处,与后者一样,该剧刚一推出,便遭到了正统宗教人士的强烈抗议,这反而增加了它的知名度,其插曲《我不知如何爱他》(I don't know how to love Him)、《万世巨星》(Superstar)长时间徘徊在各大唱片排行榜上。 笔者感觉此剧的本意和《耶稣基督的最后诱惑》一样,并不在于离经叛道,而是通过曲折的形式表现殉道者对神的服从,因为在该剧的最后,耶稣依照神的安排为人类的罪舍身又复活,并在原谅了他的敌人后升天而去。如果你对基督教有较深了解的话,相信该剧还是能够给你一些不同角度的思考。当然,撇开背景不谈,即便单单作为一出摇滚音乐剧来欣赏,这盘DVD也是不容错过的。该剧的另一个版本是1973年由环球影片公司出品的同名电影。 式圣经片给人更亲切的感觉。安德鲁.莱特韦伯创作的插曲优美动听,全片摄影和剪接都具一流水准。
简介:Sam (Matthew Broderick) is the reasonable man in a crazy urban world, the man of thoughtfulness and refined taste in a landscape of Leroy Neiman paintings and beer commercials. The guy would sooner cook for an hour over a hot stove than say `supersize it.' By day he's a store clerk in an upscale gourmet eatery, and these scenes raise a smile, especially for anyone who's visited the actual chain in New York City -- the portrayal isn't far off from the reality. Our man is besieged by hoards of customers who want their imported French cheese cut to impossibly exact standards. His efforts to remain outwardly polite (while you know he'd like to take the cleaver to the relentless clientele) are pretty funny, and will warm the hearts of clerks everywhere. In general, Broderick is in good form and provides the movie with most of whatever lightness it possesses. Sciorra's lovelorn dental hygienist, Ellen, is fine enough, too, and her unknowing interaction with our cheese-slicing hero shows some hopeful chemistry, and you may begin to feel you want to see these two get together. One of the main competitors for our lady's affections, a stockbroker (Kevin Anderson), is played as caricature he's the beer swilling frat-boy whose idea of after-sex sensitivity is flipping on the football game. He's kind of funny at times, but the movie might be stronger if he was written or acted for us to like him more, instead of having us merely recognize him as the flat-out `wrong' guy in comparison to Broderick's sensitive man. Think of John Candy in Splash, taking a cigarette and beer can to the racquetball game; we know his lifestyle is not the one our hero should emulate, but we can't help but be charmed by the likeable goon. Whereas this character is merely a goon, and pretty unlikable all around. While it's a nice enough light movie for the first half, for me the story was somewhat derailed by its unbelievable (Hollywood) presentation of sex and adultery. (SPOILER AHEAD, skip to next paragraph.) When Ellen returns home after an evening's misadventures, she is naturally faced with the questioning husband (Michael Mantell). Quickly admitting her own indiscretion, she then immediately turns the situation around, demanding to know why the guy had gone ahead and bought a house without discussing it. Granted, it's a valid issue, and granted, many people use this countering maneuver in arguments. What's unbelievable is what happens next the guy starts responding to her question, addressing the house-issue in a quiet, thoughtful manner. WHOA. You'd be hard pressed to find a married person in the world who, when faced with hisher partner's totally unexpected adultery, would be ready to address anything so calmly. The guy would surely be bouncing off the walls, or else crushed into silence and tears - but see, then we might actually feel for the poor schnook, and we'd see Sciorra's character in a poor light. And since that particular audience reaction doesn't serve the romantic comedy, the story tries to sneak around it. You may start to feel that, like the husband, you're being taken. Further dissatisfaction is just around the corner in the ending. We realize this is where misunderstandings will get sorted out, and our couple will finally see a clear path to one another. We want the satisfaction of rooting for them. But it's marred by another unbelievable character reaction, followed by an abrupt conclusion that feels rushed and forced, too easy and unearned. You may feel as though the movie's cheating on you again...
简介:塞巴斯蒂安(斯蒂文·麦金托什 Steven Mackintosh 饰)和维奥拉(伊莫金·斯塔布斯 Imogen Stubbs 饰)是一对情同手足的孪生兄妹,一场暴风雨中,两人不幸遇难,维奥拉死里逃生,塞巴斯蒂安却就此下落不明。为了找到哥哥,维奥拉不惜女扮男装,成为了奥西诺公爵(托比·斯蒂芬斯 Toby Stephens 饰)的贴身侍从。 奥西诺公爵深爱着名为奥莉薇娅(海伦娜·伯翰·卡特 Helena Bonham Carter 饰)的女子,但奥莉薇娅却因为生活变故而拒绝相见。公爵派出维奥拉前往奥莉薇娅处游说说情,让两人没有想到的是,奥莉薇娅似乎对维奥拉情有独钟。糟糕的是,维奥拉爱上了善良的奥西诺公爵,一段复杂的三人关系,究竟会走向怎样的境地呢?