Last at the Festival with 2017’s rural noir Dark River, a selection in the Platform programme, writer-director Clio Barnard returns to the Bradford, West Yorkshire setting of her earlier films for this tumultuous, fiercely affecting midlife love story.
A bundle of good humour and nervous energy, Ali (Adeel Akhtar) is a British Pakistani working-class landlord who forges close bonds with his tenants. One day, while picking up one of his tenants’ children from school, he offers a lift to Ava (Claire Rushbrook), an Irish-born teacher and single mother of five. They bond almost instantly through their love of music, though Ali favours the high energy of Buzzcocks and hip-hop while Ava takes refuge in the quieter comforts of Bob Dylan and Karen Dalton. Despite their divergent backgrounds, differences in their stages of life, and the colour of their skin, despite the fact of Ali’s failing marriage and Ava’s fraught relationship with her adult and adolescent children, each finds themself irresistibly drawn to the other. But can their mutual desire transcend a barrage of personal obstacles?
Inspired by people Barnard encountered while making her acclaimed features The Arbor and The Selfish Giant, Ali & Ava is a film that feels profoundly rooted in lived experience, blending a tender emotional complexity with an at times bracing depiction of trauma and grief. Akhtar and Rushbrook’s finely hued performances speak to the setting’s cultural diversity and tribal loyalties while yielding a vulnerability that’s alternately heart-wrenching and joyous. Their story serves as a reminder that it is sometimes the least likely connections that are the ones most worth pursuing.
故事发生在南美洲殖民统治西班牙的时代,在殖民者残暴的统治之下,百姓民不聊生,过着苦不堪言的日子。新总督盖尔在上任的途中遭到暗杀,临死之前,他将自己的任职书交给了他最信赖的朋友唐(亨利·达罗 Henry Darrow 配音),希望他能够代替自己完成遗志。
一晃眼数月过去,民间开始流传起关于一位蒙面黑衣剑客佐罗的传说,他劫富济贫惩奸除恶,总会在现场留下大大的“Z”,来震慑那些不法之徒。随着时间的推移,大家都开始对这位黑衣男子的真实身份产生了浓烈的好奇心。
影片根据1993年同名射击游戏改编而成。
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