从小跟从父亲学习剑道的矢田部,在一次训练过程中致父亲重伤不治,从此意志消沉,沉迷酒色。极具天赋的高中生羽田机缘巧合跟随僧侣剑道大师光邑习武,并受其所托将一封信转交给矢田部。矢田部借机大闹剑道部,包括羽田在内的学员集体溃败。矢田部无法面对已变成植物人的父亲,整日沉溺在童年阴影和错杀父亲的愧疚中。一个雷雨交加的夜里,羽田在矢田部的必经之路上向他发起挑战,并坦言自己曾经因为溺水而留下心理阴影,希望能和内心同样痛苦的前辈一较高下,矢田部恍惚中重伤羽田。矢田部的父亲病逝,葬礼上矢田部仪态尽失,在光邑大师的安抚下,读了父亲写给大师的一封信,其中声明自己在丧妻之后一蹶不振,和儿子之间已生罅隙,自己一心求死,想命丧儿子剑下,但希望光邑培养儿子成材。重整旗鼓的矢田部终于将要迎来和羽田一场正式的比赛。 影片改编自芥川赏作家藤泽周同名小说。
丹尼(瑞斯·伊凡斯 Rhys Ifans 饰)和女友特鲁迪(贾丝婷·克拉克 Justine Clarke 饰)交往多年,后者对他的感情早已经由浓转淡,时常在不知不觉之中对他流露出轻蔑的意思,这让丹尼感到十分沮丧。一天,丹尼在自己坐的椅子上绑满了气球,想不到竟然飞上了天空,丹尼在天空中飘啊飘,不知道飘了多久,在一场盛大的烟火表演中终于重回地面。 丹尼降落在了一个名为克拉伦斯的小镇上,在那里,他邂逅了名为格伦达(米兰达·奥图 Miranda Otto 饰)的姑娘。善良热情的格伦达渐渐吸引了丹尼,也重塑了他的自信心,就在两人浓情蜜意之时,特鲁迪来到了他的身边。
“For two years starting in 2020, this work has been forming along the edges of disquiet and premonition, in fragments and intensities, through wandering and not-staying. It has tried to find language for and ways across the bizarre upheavals of social and political values with the rise of fascism in India and a global pandemic. It has insisted on being amongst the things that keep from falling apart. Filmed in Delhi, these incomplete fictions are of the people, places, and protests that keep the language of hatred at bay and absorb the city’s grief and euphoria. In them are the continuous echoes of a violent and tenuous present. The false closures and tenuous associations in this video/essay compose a timeline of the city at an angle through the time of this work. There is a shadowy sense of a protagonist who un-dreams it all; a stranger, who it turns out, is no stranger at all.” Priya Sen