汉森(凯文·贝肯 Kevin Bacon 饰)是一名保守党专栏作家,凭借着自己英俊的外表和肚子里的墨水,汉森处处留情,俨然一副花花公子的模样。布莱尔(伊丽莎白·帕金斯 Elizabeth Perkins 饰)是自由党专栏作家,她的感情观是从一而终,至死不渝。这两个仿佛是正负电极般的两个截然相反的人,他们共同在太阳报工作,自然而然的,大到三观小到日常琐碎,这两个人在每一件事情上都持有着相反的态度。 当他们的“美名”传到了当地电视台的耳中后,电视台决定为他们专门开设一档节目,在节目里,两人可以以自己的立场对时事发表意见。刚开始,节目现场洋溢着浓烈的火药味,但随着时间的推移,汉森和布莱尔都发现,对方并不是自己想象中的那么不可理喻。
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.