For Le Genou d'Artemide Jean-Marie Straub once again chose a dialogue by Cesare Pavese. And not just any dialogue, but one that tears open a painful, mystical abyss between love and the one left behind. The film is one single exhilaration and one single rush, a spell and dispersion into nature. It rises from a dark screen and chant to disappear in the woods with the whisper of the wind. It has little to do with what is generally called «cinema». It has one foot in the world beyond.
Nature has ten million times the imagination of the most imaginative of artists. (Jean-Marie Straub)
苏珊娜(Kristin Scott Thomas 克里斯汀·斯科特·托马斯 饰)是个拥有优渥生活的中年妇女,她的丈夫是小有名气的牙医,并且正在慢慢涉足政治仕途,她有一双乖巧儿女,刚刚十几岁需要照顾,她自己也在努力重返事业——成为理疗师。这样的生活似乎可以永久持续下去,但一切随着伊万(Sergi López 饰)的到来土崩瓦解。伊万是个随处打工的西班牙建筑工人,帮苏珊娜家扩建工作室时与她相识,很快,苏珊娜对伊万产生一股莫名的欲望,以探伤为借口追随他到西班牙,很快燃起干柴烈火的激情。不可遏制的二人秘密相会,直到苏珊娜决意抛弃妻子与伊万私奔,完全不顾她盛怒的丈夫动用一切政治关系切断她的经济来源……
Will, a young Hispanic gay potter, is one gregarious guy. His boss is terrible, but he's got a great boyfriend and a great job. Unfortunately, behind that veneer is a dark past of violence and mental illness that he is desperate to keep hidden. When his bipolar mother comes out of the woodwork after ten years of silence, he begins exhibiting unexplainable symptoms. After an injury at work, he starts losing functioning of his arms, and something sinister lurks in the corner of his vision a silent and ominous man in a wolf costume. Will spirals into an obsession, determined to solve this mystery of his own. What is going on with his arms Can he trust his boyfriend Is he becoming his mother
At 38, Thomas is at a crossroads in his life. His parents are nonstop guilt-inducers, his ex-wife is always on his back, and his son is far from inspirational. Thomas himself is almost too intellectual to survive daily life. The attentions of a straightforward English teacher seem to be a way out.
While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.