FARHA tells the story of a young Palestinian girl whose dream changes from seeking education in the city to survival in Palestine 1948.
年迈的摇滚明星约翰·奥尔曼（小哈里·康尼克 饰）的专辑销量不佳，热门歌曲人气也逐渐下降。于是他决定暂停事业，重拾活力，并搬到了地中海田园诗般的塞浦路斯岛上一座孤立在悬崖边的房屋中。然而，他追求低调生活的愿望却被频繁的访客打乱。后来，当一段旧情重新燃起时，他又面临着更加复杂的意外。
Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career. Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.) As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played. The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument). Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.
在絕望中，她的歌聲喚醒了人的良知，包括愛 全球知名的女高音蘿珊考斯（茱莉安摩爾飾）擁有天籟般的美聲，應邀前往南美洲的私人慶生派對，為極其熱愛歌劇的日本富商細川先生（渡邊謙飾）獻唱，來自世界各地的外交使節與政商名流星光雲集，熱鬧歡騰，直到一記記的槍響劃破天際，歡樂的氣氛戛然而止。無數的哀嚎、尖叫四起，一群武裝革命分子闖入，將所有人挾持為人質，一場驚心動魄的談判就此展開，漫長的僵局也隨之而來。 深陷險境，命在旦夕，身心俱疲的蘿珊臨危受命開口一唱，悄悄喚醒了不可泯滅的人性與愛情，透過動人的音符，讓每一個人忘卻了自己仍身處險境，淪為美聲的俘虜……。
《激情之罪》讲述的是亚瑟和丽贝卡是一对情人，她们将制定一个计划，杀死丽贝卡的丈夫，夺得他的财产，一切局情为了这个计划而战……
