In the summer of ’76, as President Jimmy Carter pledges to give government back to the people, tensions run high in a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood where the Black Panthers once flourished. When Marcus returns—having bolted years earlier—his homecoming isn’t exactly met with fanfare. His former movement brothers blame him for an unspeakable betrayal. Only his best friend’s widow, Patricia, appreciates Marcus’s predicament, which both unites and paralyzes them. As Patricia’s daughter compels the two comrades to confront their past, history repeats itself in dangerous ways. Night Catches Us masterfully reckons with the complexity of its characters’ revolutionary ideologies and internal desires. Bell-bottoms, Afros, potlucks, and Caddies set the scene as the film potently interweaves political media with an evocative soul-inspired score, summoning a vivid sense of place and time. The golden light that bathes characters’ faces seems to express the promise—and elusiveness—of the necessary change Marcus and Patricia struggle for so dearly—each by separate means.
繁忙的巴黎街道上,法律系的大学生每天傍晚都与学画的希薇擦身而过,他倾倒于她的美貌,终于一天得到机会与她搭讪,一心以为下个明天便可发展。然而他却再也没有见过希薇,为了再次偶遇,他放弃了晚饭,改为在曾经相遇的街道上走三个来回。为了消磨时间,他走进一家面包店买酥油饼,此后天天如此,而且他感觉到面包店的女孩对自己颇有意思。男性的天性令他不由自主地与她调情,尽管他明知道她并不是他所喜欢的类型。三周后,他约到她共进晚餐,就在此时,希薇出现了,心中的女神与面包店女孩,他会作何选择?
詹姆斯·麦卡沃伊、艾丽西亚·维坎德加盟的爱情片《淹没》将于三月开机,导演维姆·文德斯。故事围绕女科学家丹妮尔与英国商人詹姆斯的爱情故事展开。詹姆斯因被伊斯兰圣战分子囚禁,与丹妮尔远隔千里,两人的爱情面临生与死的考验。Embankment公司将在2月开展的欧洲电影交易市场上对本片进行预售。
害羞文静的法国少女芳妮参加学校的交换学生计划,来到德国住在同龄笔友蕾娜家。蕾娜冷酷又充满防备,语言是她们之间的一道墙,芳妮为卸下蕾娜心防,将烦恼与秘密告诉对方,两人因此拉近了距离。时间一天天过去,爱情不用翻译,反倒在语言的落差中滋长。这次,轮到蕾娜前往法国交换,暂住芳妮家的她,逐渐发现芳妮的秘密似乎另有蹊跷,但更糟糕的是,自己的感情已经越陷越深⋯⋯
灵感来源于一个真实的故事。20 世纪 60 年代,在一家与其说是疗养院不如说更像监狱的精神病院里,年轻的护士安娜(Mariarosaria Mingione 饰)在青少年病房工作。在这里,她遇到了可爱的露西亚(Gaia Girace 饰),一个 15 岁的精神分裂症患者,并与她产生了感情。在玛丽医生(Monica Guerritore 饰)和刻板的奥雷斯特医生(Pietro Ragusa 饰)为新的实验性治疗方法进行无休止斗争的背景下,安娜和露西亚之间的感情不断加深,迫使她们为各自的人生做出决定性的选择。