Murayama Kaita, a Japanese painter, novelist and poet died in 1919 at the age of 22, leaving behind an impressive and time-defying body of work. In his most recent film, Sato Hisayasu offers a surreal, time-crossing, meta-layered essay on the artist, his originality and his legacy. Dear Kaita Ablaze brings together a young woman Azami obsessed with Murayama's painting, a young man Saku, who can hear unusual frequencies and claims to be Murayama or his spiritual imprint and a quartet of young performers with psychic abilities. They bond over Murayama’s work which they recreate in performative dance while driving to a mysterious cave called Agartha. Sato Hisayasu (The Eye's Dream, Muscle, The Bedroom), renowned for his pinku and exploration of madness and lust, returns to IFFR. Dear Kaita Ablaze is hyper-dense, obsessive and driven, effortlessly mashing surrealism with sci-fi and mysticism, layering seemingly unrelated events and encounters to bring them together in a monumental climax. – kijA
克林伍德夫妇(Monica Potter & Tony Goldwyn 饰)携女儿玛丽驱车来到湖畔别墅度假,刚抵达不久,玛丽(Sara Paxton 饰)便开车去找朋友佩姬(Martha MacIsaac 饰)玩。期间她们邂逅碰巧路过此地的青年贾斯汀(Spencer Treat Clark 饰),在男孩的邀请下,玛丽和佩姬一同前往贾斯汀所在的旅馆。 在旅馆中,她们遇见贾斯汀的父亲克鲁克(Garret Dillahunt 饰)。克鲁克是一个变态杀人犯,他刚刚被弟弟法兰西(Aaron Paul 饰)和女友莎蒂(Riki Lindhome 饰)从监狱救出。为避免泄漏行踪,他们劫持了玛丽和佩姬开车跑路。途中玛丽试图逃跑,由此引发了一连串的血腥事件…… 本片荣获2009年布鲁塞尔国际奇幻电影节最佳导演奖。
生活在福幼中心的彬彬(小彬彬 饰)人小鬼大,和一班小朋友时常令恶声恶气的中心余总监(曾志伟 饰)无可奈何。这天,彬彬受童话启发,离园外出探险,偶遇魔术师兄妹俩富(岑建勋 饰)和嘉(张艾嘉 饰)。嘉嗜赌成性,并利用魔术表演偷窃,却被彬彬撞破了好事。嘉因为欠下赌债,连累富被讨债公司追索,富为了帮助入监的妹妹还钱,铤而走险卷入抢劫事件,又阴差阳错结识彬彬。富为人心地善良,将彬彬带回家中一同生活,而彬彬也爱上了这位卷毛“魔法师”。嘉终于重获自由,而此时,彬彬和富变得难分难舍。作为福幼中心的孩子,彬彬难免被收养,这令大小二人深感不舍……
本片借两对男女互相间的滥情、妒忌和背叛来制造笑料。流浪汉布杜被一个好心的书商从塞纳河中救起并收留,书商的太太和女佣对好吃懒做的布杜非常厌恶,流浪汉非但不感恩戴德,还勾引书商的太太和女仆,把他家搞得鸡犬不宁。偏偏书商本身也与女佣有染,这两对男女的爱情烂账,终于决定要用一场婚宴来解决。