东京审判

　　凯瑞（贝利·宝顿 Bailey Buntain 饰）、凯西（罗丝·麦克莱弗 Rose McIver 饰）和克里斯托弗（Wyatt Nash 饰）终于从外祖母强烈而又变态的控制欲中逃脱了出来，然而，过去带给他们的阴影却依然影响着三人各自的生活。
　　一晃眼十年过去，已经成为了一名舞蹈演员的凯西陷入了同男友朱利安（威尔·坎普 Will Kemp 饰）的虐恋之中，无法忍受后者暴力的凯西再度回到了克里斯托弗的身边。与此同时，心中充满了愤怒的凯西回到了庄园，她要向祖母奥利维亚（艾伦·波斯蒂恩 Ellen Burstyn 饰）和母亲凯瑞安（海瑟·格拉汉姆 Heather Graham 饰）寻仇，在夺走了凯瑞安的一切之后，遁入疯狂的凯瑞安用一场大火让庄园，这个所有悲剧的发源地化为了灰烬。

　　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.

　　30岁的劳拉（桑德拉·切卡莱利 Sandra Ceccarelli 饰）一直渴望能够成为一名演员，然而，她的运气不太好，表演天赋始终没能够得到挖掘，星途一片黯淡。某日，在影片《茶花女》的试镜中，劳拉大放异彩，吸引了大明星史蒂芬洛（卢伊吉洛·肖卡 Luigi Lo Cascio 饰）的注意，史蒂芬洛把本该由自己的好友基娅拉（格拉迪亚·兰芝 Galatea Ranzi 饰）所扮演的女主角一角给予了劳拉，一直对史蒂芬洛心存爱慕的基娅拉选择了接受，并且扮演了剧中的一个配角。
　　影片正式开拍了，随着剧情的推进，劳拉、史蒂芬洛和基娅拉三人之间的关系也变得越来越复杂起来。当劳拉的才华逐渐被旁人发现并且接受时，史蒂芬洛心中浮现出的是嫉妒的心情。

　　A City based thriller that travels on the Hyperlink plot connecting the four youngsters from the different walks of lives. Maanagaram will focalize upon Chennai city as one of the major characters in this film, where the backdrops would indeed become a prominent ingredient of this tale.