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.
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⋯⋯
一名身材高大、笨拙的女孩搬到了一个新城镇,在被迫加入她新天主教女子高中的排球队,而又偏偏爱上了排球队队长时,一切都变了。高中最后一年的时光,艾思和詹娜从一开始的冤家路窄到后来的并肩作战,到最后的携手共进,排球见证了她们的相爱,也见证了她们的成长。