Follows a tutor who, after being assigned an unexpected task at a mansion, finds himself struggling with the obsessions of his student, who threatens to expose his darkest secrets.
Adam is a teenage artist coming of age in the aftermath of an alien takeover. The Vuvv, a species of hyper-intelligent extraterrestrials, brought wondrous technology to earth, but only the wealthiest can afford it. The rest of humanity, their livelihoods now obsolete, have to scrape together money in the tourism industry. In the case of Adam and his budding love interest Chloe, that means livestreaming their courtship for the amusement of the coffee-table sized Vuvv, who find human love exotic and interesting. When Adam and Chloe's scheme goes sideways, Adam and his mother have to find their way out of an increasingly nightmarish alien bureaucracy.
Writer-director Cory Finley (Thoroughbreds, 2017 Sundance Film Festival) returns to Park City with this brazenly original sci-fi trip that features a breakout performance by Asante Blackk. Based on the novel by National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson, the film carefully threads its comedic fantasies with a morose sensibility that sends audiences on a probing exploration of class and commerce.
朱莉安(朱莉娅•罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰)和迈克尔(德蒙特•莫罗尼 Dermot Mulroney饰)是大学时候的情侣。和大多数的恋人一样,他们的热恋慢慢降温,直到沦为好朋友。于是毕业前有了这样一个约定:如果28岁之前,彼此还是单身,那么就明证了他俩是天造地设的一对,到时候两人就结婚。
毕业后二人一直通电,朱莉安以为只是友情。然而迈克尔的婚讯却让她如梦初醒——自己一直都还深爱迈克尔,此时强烈的妒嫉和伤心让她寝食难安。
朱莉安决定要改变这一切。她一手设计了一个个令人哭笑不得的“阴谋”,让迈克尔未婚妻当众出丑,离间他们的感情。当发现迈克尔对未婚妻的爱竟然占了上风时,朱莉安在婚礼上做出了疯狂举动,这一招果真气走了新娘。然而事情又有了变化。
2018年5月和6月,Jean Gabriel P_Riot与位于Ivry Sur Seine的一所高中的10名电影班学生合作,开展了一项将电影与政治结合起来的项目。学生们在摄像机前和摄像机后工作,重新布置罢工、抵抗和劳资纠纷的场景,这些电影可以追溯到20世纪60年代末到70年代末,包括让-卢克-戈达尔和阿兰-坦纳的电影。nos d_faites汇集了调查结果,并增加了采访,在采访中,导演询问学生他们刚刚表演的场景,关于“阶级”、“工会”和“政治参与”等概念,以及更广泛的社会背景。这是一个简单,但尖锐的设置,让观众一瞥年轻一代如何看待政治和过去的政治电影。这部影片还记录了导演试图激怒学生的企图。在导演和学生似乎处于平等地位的遭遇中,基于从未见过的导演更多类似于老师的提问,以及此时此刻对革命的思考:起义的表现反映了同样的情况。这会导致一个真实的发生吗?
In May and June 2018, Jean-Gabriel Périot collaborated with ten students in a film class at a high school in Ivry-sur-Seine on a project that unites cinema with politics. The students worked both in front of and behind the camera, restaging scenes of strikes, resistance, and labour disputes from films dating from the late 1960s to the late 1970s, including ones by Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Tanner. Nos défaites assembles the results, and adds interviews in which the director queries the students about the scenes they’ve just acted in, about such concepts as “class,” “labour union,” and “political engagement,” about wider social contexts. It’s a simple, yet trenchant setup, affording viewers a glimpse of how a younger generation sees politics and the political cinema of the past. The film also documents the director’s attempts to stir up the students. The conversations vary between encounters in which director and students seem on an equal footing, based on more teacher-like questioning by the never-visible director, and contemplations of revolution in the here and now: the performance of an uprising follows reflection upon the same. Could this lead to one happening for real?
回到1968年的电影时代,继续对重放从过去跳出来的电影节选的年轻人进行今天的采访,我们的失败描绘了我们当前与政治的关系。我们的失败,还是我们有足够的力量来面对今天的混乱?
By going back into the cinema of the 1968 era and going forward with present-day interviews of young people who replay excerpts of film s jumping out from the past, Our Defeats draw the portrait of our current relations with politics. Our Defeats, or do we keep enough forces to confront ourselves with the chaos of today?