The Girl Before tells the story of Jane (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), who gets the chance to move into a beautiful, ultra-minimalist house designed by an enigmatic architect (David Oyelowo). There’s just one catch occupants have to abide by his list of exacting rules. Jane starts to feel the house changing her in unexpected ways, but when she makes the shocking discovery that her predecessor Emma died in the house, she’s forced to confront unnerving similarities. As the two women’s timelines interweave, Jane begins to question if her fate will be the same as the girl before…
故事设定于上世纪60年代,琼斯博士(哈里森·福特 Harrison Ford 饰)即将迎来退休,但来访的故人之女海伦娜(菲比·沃勒-布里奇 Phoebe Waller-Bridge 饰)却打破了他平静的生活,后者希望和他一同寻找能够改变历史走向的宝物“命运转盘”,这也唤起了一段尘封已久的回忆。在二战末期,琼斯曾与纳粹争夺过“命运转盘”。宛如宿命一般,如今他再次被卷入“命运转盘”的争夺,而纳粹的残余势力也卷土重来,觊觎着这件宝物。
An amiable picture about entering adulthood, great dreams, and the first - forbidden - love of a white postman, Jakub, and a pretty Gypsy girl, Jolanka. This is a poetic story, a mosaic of the playful world springing from the wild imagination of the village postman and its clash with the pragmatic mundane reality that finally beats the rosy dream's of the young protagonists. Director Dusan Hanak and screenwriter Dusan Dusek's most popular film has been cherished by critics as well as wide audiences at home arid abroad.
奇普(Sebastian Banes 饰)是个早熟的六岁男孩,他有两个爸爸:寇迪(Trevor St. John 饰)和乔伊(Patrick Wang 王沛智 饰)。一家三口住在美国田纳西州平静的乡间。当寇迪因车祸意外去世后,乔伊惟有努力面对人生。但正当新生活开始时,却得知寇迪在他未更新的遗嘱中任命了他的姊姊为奇普的监护人。在感恩节假期乔伊带奇普去寇迪姊姊家后,从此再也看不到他的孩子了。乔伊为此走上了漫长而绝望的争夺抚养权之路。
本片将种族、阶级与性别问题提出了另一种观看的角度,使人反思传统与家庭的关系,是华裔电影人王沛智自编自导自演的处女作,入围2012年美国独立精神奖,是一部关于爱和亲情的感人佳作。