喧闹的中学校园里,一群中学生正为了爱情和兼职忙得不可开交。高大帅气的布拉德(祖德·莱茵霍尔德 Judge Reinhold 饰)颇受欢迎,同时也是连锁快餐店的出色员工,但他和女友的关系似乎走到了尽头。布拉德的妹妹史黛丝(詹妮弗·杰森·李 Jennifer Jason Leigh 饰)对爱情充满憧憬,在好友琳达的劝说下对亲近男青年跃跃欲试。冲浪小子杰夫(西恩·潘 Sean Penn 饰)整日嗑药浑浑噩噩,令古板的教师头大如斗。和史黛丝在同一座商场兼职的瑞特性格羞涩,想要接近史黛丝却始终笨拙,瑞特好友迈克自诩把妹达人,为瑞特连续出谋划策却把史黛丝勾搭到了手。史黛丝连续经历没有意义的混乱两性关系,终于留意到瑞特的可爱之处。而布拉德在遭遇失业打击后再难觅得称心工作。夏夜漫漫,年轻人的故事好笑又略显苦涩……
Didier Konings’ simmering mediaeval horror Witte Wieven explores the confluence of religion and patriarchy in an excessively puritanical Dutch village. Blamed by her community for being childless, Frieda immerses herself in prayer and ritual. When she returns unscathed from the forbidden forest surrounding the village, having evaded a lecherous butcher, she is condemned as an agent of the devil. Frieda, however, finds new faith in the dark powers that inhabit the woods.
Shot in a reduced colour palette at the edge of visibility, Konings’ gripping film constructs a convincing pre-modern society whose practices it elucidates with patience and attention. Although set in the Middle Ages, Witte Wieven displays an unmistakably contemporary spirit, crafting a feminist parable about women discovering new ways of understanding their lives and the world.
The film is inspired by the true-to-life story of the discovery of the long-lost “Opus 28” manuscript from Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen, originally performed in 1909 by Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow, to whom the piece was dedicated.
Campbell portrays a student who seeks to complete her thesis on Parlow by organizing a public performance of “Opus 28” from Toronto to Oslo. The cast includes Dueñas, Melanie Scheiner, Eve Duranceau, Maxim Gaudette, Rosa-Johan Uddoh, and Eileen Davies.
Debt-ridden pacifist Richard Fyre is propositioned to return to his abandoned mercenary ways by flamboyant zealot, Priest, to eliminate his international competition in exchange for a clean slate.