简介:Set in Abidjan’s MACA prison, the aging Black Beard, in attempt to maintain control over his fellow inmates, resorts to a “story” ritual, wherein one prisoner is forced, Scheherazade-style, to tell stories for an entire night. The young pickpocket he chooses relays the haunting tale of the Zama King.
简介:Inspired by true life events, in the Oyo Empire in the 1940's, Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman, succumbs to the lure of beauty and sexual desire on the very evening he is set to die in order to fulfil his lifelong debt of ritual suicide to accompany the dead Alaafin to the realm of the ancestors, he derails from a very important generational and spiritual transaction. This sets in motion a series of catastrophic consequences, in a spell-binding film of emotions, humour, and tragic role reversals that puts ancient beliefs and customs on trial in an ever increasingly post-modern and Western world.
简介:Nobody Walks in LA is the story of two old friends who, faced with decisions that cannot wait, put their lives on pause for a day and do the unthinkable.... walk around Los Angeles. Putting...
简介:The legend of King Naresuan continues with this third of four chapters and tells the story of King Naresuan, Thai’s chivalric king and warrior in the Ayutthaya era who fought against the invasion of Burmese troops that wanted to overpower the Ayutthaya Kingdom.
简介:老国王将女儿格温多琳公主(阿什莉·琼斯 Ashley Jones 饰)嫁给了萨西尼安国王做他的王妃,以求得到强国的庇护。为了保证公主能够顺利抵达彼国,老国王派出了以雷诺兹(朗·普尔曼 Ron Perlman 饰)为首的国王卫队,一路保护公主,就这样,雷诺兹带领着他的一帮弟兄,踏上了充满了危险的漫漫路途。半路上,雷诺兹一行人遭遇了穷凶极恶的劫匪,让雷诺兹没有想到的是,在其中,他竟然发现了曾经的国王卫士戴博特(埃里克·罗伯茨 Eric Roberts 饰)。原来,戴博特一直深爱着格温多琳公主,老国王此次的决定激怒了他,企图掳走公主。巧合的是,在相处的过程中,格温多琳公主竟然爱上了忠厚的雷诺兹,如此一来,在雷诺兹和戴博特之间,一场恶战在所难免。
简介:Like his fiery study of a popular milieu in Fièvre, Louis Delluc's early masterpiece of impressionist cinema, La Femme de Nulle Part, is almost impossible to see outside of rare archival projections in Paris. Shot in natural settings, and stripped of all that is not cinema, Delluc's psychological drama featuring symbolist muse Eve Francis is an experiment in 'direct style.' A fascinating study in the relationship between past and present, memory, dream and reality, this revolutionary film would be a source of inspiration for successive filmmakers, from Francois Truffaut to Alain Resnais.
简介:A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the High Priest as well.