薇薇安(艾玛·汤普森 Emma Thompson 饰)是一位学识渊博的博士,让年轻的她没有想到的是,上帝竟然给对生活和学术充满了热情的自己开了一个天大的玩笑,经过医生的确证,她患上了卵巢癌,病情已经发展到了末期,几乎没有治愈的可能。 从悲伤、抗拒到最后的接受,薇薇安的内心犹如踏过了千山万水。尽管康复的希望渺茫,但她还是积极地接受了可能令她形销骨立的化疗治疗。在身体逐渐枯萎,头发接连落光的过程中,这位睿智的女性也不忘对自己的前半生进行捉摸和思考,她在有限的生命中看到了无限,最终调整好了心态,以平静之姿态,面对必然到来之死亡。
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.