Summertime. In a beautiful village in Corsica, five young schoolmates are facing a dilemma: what to do about a local factory that has been polluting their favourite river? Desperate times call for desperate measures and they decide to take radical direct action. But the adventure doesn’t go exactly as planned…
二战前夕,英格兰约克夏郡。受动荡时局的影响,欧洲的下层人民生活艰辛。矿工山姆(约翰·林奇 John Lynch饰)和妻子莎拉(萨曼莎·莫顿 Samantha Morton饰)一直过着极其窘困的生活。然而承担一家人生活的山姆,还是失去了这份唯一的工作。他们的儿子乔(乔纳森·梅森 Jonathan Mason饰)在学校遭受老师的毒打,他唯一的慰藉只有他心爱的牡羊犬朋友莱西。然而为了维持生计,山姆不得不将莱西卖给鲁德林公爵(彼德·奥图 Peter O'Toole饰)。
失去莱西的乔非常伤心,母亲莎拉也很难过。而思念乔的莱西,也几次从公爵家偷跑出去,但忠厚的山姆一家每次都忍痛将它归还。终于,公爵要携孙女回到遥远的苏格兰居住,莱西也将被一起带走。
Ana is alive and married with Antonio; they arrive in the manor in the countryside of Spain where she worked as a nanny many years ago, for the centennial birthday of the matriarch. In their reunion, she finds that Jose died three years ago; Juan left his wife Luchy; Fernando is still living with his mother and unsuccessfully trying to fly a hang glider; and the three little gi...
Hollywood-style time travel tales like to focus their attention on cultural fads and fashions: clothes, music, slang, daily technologies. The ingeniously low-budget Irish sci-fi film LOLA has fun with all of that, but also investigates darker, more global questions like: what if Germany had won World War II?
Pieced together in dazzling 16mm as an imaginary collage of interlocking audio-visual documents from the 1940s, Andrew Legge, directing his debut feature, conjures the lives of two gifted and lively sisters, Thomasina and Martha. Left to their own devices as children, the pair has managed to create a machine that receives media broadcasts from the future. In their personal, cloistered, punk paradise, they embrace the rebellious styles of an age to come – The Kinks, David Bowie – but also discover, when military personnel move in, that history is a dangerous game to toy with. The ultimate question becomes: if mass media can change the world, can cinema miraculously restore it?
Just like the monument to bricolage created by its characters, LOLA is an inspired conceit in the style of Guy Maddin, Woody Allen’s Zelig (1983) and Peter Jackson’s Forgotten Silver (1996). It’s a surreal romp through scratches, glitches and speculative possibilities.
In 2016 filmmaker/photographer Pete McBride and writer Kevin Fedarko set out on a 750-mile journey on foot through the entire length of the Grand Canyon. More people have stood on the moon than have accomplished this task. Their quest was more than just an endurance test — it was also a way to draw attention to the unprecedented threats facing one of our most revered landscapes...