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　　伊凡尼（南尼·莫莱蒂 Nanni Moretti 饰）有一个和睦温暖的家庭，儿子安德烈和女儿艾琳更是让这个家庭乐也融融。而伊凡尼身为心理医生，常常接触到各式各样的心理病患者，从而更加珍惜目前的生活。然而生活的残酷随之而来，在一个看上去平常的早晨，却传来了一个令这个家庭为之崩溃的消息——儿子在潜水运动中遇上不测，不幸身亡。
　　伊凡尼一家顿时陷入了一篇黑暗当中，母亲终日以泪洗脸，姐姐艾琳压抑着痛苦照顾悲伤的父母，而父亲，更是因为过度悲痛而不能继续工作。而儿子空空如也的房间，深深刺痛了每个家人的心。
　　远方寄来一个女孩子的来信，来信成全了家人对儿子的追思，并令到这个家庭重新有了一丝生机。然而逝者如斯，各人内心的伤痛，只有时间能慢慢治疗。

　　伊斯坦布尔受到政治暴力的控制。 Hamza, 是一名高级政治官员，他从监狱里释放了 Kadir，条件是Kadir要在垃圾收集器的新情报单位工作。Kadir 答应了，开始从贫民窟收集垃圾，并检查它是否包含制造炸弹的材料。可Kadir 发现他的弟弟Ahmet身在其中，Ahm et 在市政当局工作，并负责一件清除流浪汉的行动……

　　智利申奥送选片，根据真实事件改编，一个老实本份的中产阶级男人，被一个流氓恶霸不断的欺压凌辱 搞得妻离子散，最后奋起反击的故事。

　　一只小猴子因飞机坠毁独自落入亚马逊丛林中心，他要在丛林中学会生存和保护自己，他需要适应在这未知的世界，神奇的大自然充满精彩，也充斥着敌意……
　　作为失事飞机的幸存者，他是幸运的，但他还是要独自面对大自然的考验：与食肉动物、有毒的植物以及亚马逊丛林的绿色屏障作斗争……

　　Summary
　　Bullied by his matriarchal mother, abused by his siblings, ignored by his father, Poil de Carotte's childhood is as miserable as it could be.  An illegitimate child, he is the main reason for the enmity which exists between his parents, who continue to live together just to keep up appearances. In the end, Poil de Carotte's suffering becomes more than he can bear...
　　Review
　　Drawing heavily on the poignant novel by Jules Renard on which it is based, Poil de carotte is a modest yet appealing film which has stood the test of time mainly because of the quality of its acting performances and its inherent humanity. It is more memorable than Julien Duvivier's earlier silent version of 1925, also named Poil de Carotte.
　　The part of Poil de Carotte was played by 11 year old Robert Lynen, who was alleged to have been discovered whilst walking down the Champs-Elysées in Paris. Lynen is totally captivating and the film made him an instant star, launching what looked like becoming a very promising film career – until he was shot dead whilst fighting against the Germans in 1944.  Harry Baur, a legendary stage and film actor (who also died during World War II, allegedly at the hands of the Gestapo), also turns in a typically fine performance.  The reconciliation between father and son at the end of the film provides its most enduring image, enough to melt the heart of all but the most stoical of spectators.

　　一个曾经丧失人性的刑讯逼供者.在几十年之后接受电台记者的采访重新回忆自己那段罪孽深重的过去.他以前拷问别人,现在却接受这个记者的“拷问”.在这个下午,拷问的不仅仅是他本人,也拷问了人性,拷问了整个社会制度。

　　罗塞塔（瓦伦蒂娜•斯卡里希 Valentina Scalici 饰）和卢恰诺（朱塞佩•伊拉西塔诺 Giuseppe Ieracitano 饰）是一对相依为命的姐弟，她们的母亲因为逼女儿卖淫而锒铛入狱。此事遭媒体曝光后，两人随后被两个警察送上了去孤儿院的列车。其中一个警察因事先行告退，将姐弟俩托付给警察安东尼奥（恩里克•洛维索 Enrico Lo Verso 饰）独自看护。姐姐背负着雏妓的心理压力，但是弟弟却总是我行我素，两人常常发生争执。安东尼奥总是默默旁观，小心翼翼地呵护着两颗稚嫩的童心。在经历了抢劫、酒店驱逐，学校开除、哮喘疾病等一连串霉运后，安东尼奥似乎跟姐弟俩建立一种亦父亦友的关系，然而一张报纸却让他们的世界陷入崩溃的边缘……
　　本片获第45届戛纳电影节评委会大奖。

　　Though Delluc's career was short-lived, it burst vigorously(7 films in 4 years)that it forever left its imprint on french cinema history, and they rightly honoured him by giving the annual Prix Delluc to the best French film of the year. He was responsible for the creation of influential cinema  journals like Le Journal du Ciné-Club and Cinéa, founding numerous film societies, writing countless articles and coining the term "cineaste". Delluc believed that films should be set in the natural without elaborate posturing, and characters should be portrayed in an intimate way where the past and present, illusion and reality can be correlated, all considered to be avant-garde at its time. He died only a few weeks after the shooting of The Flood at the age of 33.

　　上世纪90年代，一个北非村庄里，八名法国西多会修士严守着基督教的信条，在修道院唱诗、礼拜、救死扶伤，与当地穆斯林村民和谐相处。然而，一次恐怖主义分子的袭击，打破了这份宁静。工地上，外籍工人惨遭屠戮，西多会开始遭到村民的怀疑和怨恨。此时，政府军决定对修道院加强护卫，然而以克里斯汀（朗贝尔•维尔森 Lambert Wilson 饰）为首的修士们最终拒绝了军队的要求。在圣诞节前夜里，一群原教旨主义者深夜来访，宣称对这场屠杀事件负责。在教堂门口，基督教修士与伊斯兰教门徒进行了教义上的短兵相接。修士们用勇气和教义捍卫了尊严，全身而退。然而，政府军随后杀到，不仅活捉了恐怖分子，而且用卑劣的死刑处死了头目。他们怀疑修士与恐怖分子私通，于是把矛头对准了这座教堂……
　　本片获得第63届戛纳电影节评审团大奖。

　　Ayse/Eleni who is a member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her early ages. However, the events that happen cause her to face her own past.

　　吴红燕（刘丹 饰），中国西部平川市人民法院一个普通的法警。丈夫病亡，独身十年，她的生活黯淡无味，每日里做着例行的工作，法庭上出示证物，判决后送走一个个绝望的人。对她来说，也许只有每周去兴城婚姻介绍所才能让生活有一丝希望，然而幸福却与一次次与她擦肩而过。
　　一个女犯因故意杀人被判处死刑，吴红燕作了她的送行者。女犯的丈夫李军（奇道 饰）因此憎恨上这个沉默的女警，时常尾随其后，伺机刺杀。但是，未曾染血的刀子被丢下，两颗孤独寂寞的心却走到一起……
　　本片荣获2007年第23届华沙国际电影节新导演和新电影大奖。

　　在与天相连的莽莽群山之中有一座藏族村寨，由于生产的粮食不够自给，世世代代靠运盐为生。老首领天尼的儿子本应是下一任村里的头人，却在运盐的路上意外身亡，而众望所归的继任者卡玛在天尼的眼中则是为夺头人之位而蓄意害死自己儿子的罪犯。在一次新的运盐旅程开始前夕，村子里以老天尼和卡玛分别为首的两派各持一辞，互不相让。最终卡玛带领年轻人在提前于老人们占卜的日子出发，而天尼而带领自己当喇嘛的儿子和孙子以前一群老随从按占卜的日子上路。运盐队伍不仅一路风餐露宿还要应对群山之中意想不到的危险，两支运盐的队伍谁能克服艰难险阻先到达旅途的终点？本片影像风格粗狂绮丽、荡气回肠，宛如仙乐般的藏密梵音贯穿始终，令人心旷神怡。
　　该片是由法国、尼泊尼、瑞士和英国四国合作，历时9个月拍摄的剧情与纪录大片，曾入围第72届奥斯卡最佳外语片奖提名以及2000年欧洲电影最佳摄影奖提名，并于当年获得了恺撒最佳摄影奖和音乐奖。

　　患有癌症晚期的诗人亚历山大（Bruno Ganz）在进医院等待死亡的前一天，想将一直陪伴其左右的狗交托自己的亲生女儿，遭到对方拒绝。女儿对自己处境的不了解，以及女婿打算将自己的祖屋卖掉，令亚历山大神伤不已黯然离开。
　　在亚历山大孤独地面对自己生命的最后一天时，太太安娜在世时的诸多生活片段、探望独自生活在疗养院中的年迈衰弱母亲的情形、花费大半生心血研究的19世纪诗人所罗穆斯等，一一以或真实或梦幻的形态与他会面，来助他解除对“明天会持续多久”的困惑。

　　本片出自德国新浪潮电影代表人物之一，《铁皮鼓》导演沃尔克·施隆多夫之手，是一部向法国著名导演让·梅尔维尔致敬的经典作品。影片描写第一次世界大战期间，高贵的索菲女伯爵爱上了一位普通士兵，但动荡的时代，因为这段恋情却给两人带来了可怕的灾难，影片悲伤而凄凉，是导演沃尔克·施隆多夫除《铁皮鼓》以外，最被人认同的大师作品……

　　This film is not based on a real story. It is based on thousands.

　　"Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
　　"The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport  both in their professional and daily lives  between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps.
　　The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial." -Steve Grayson
　　"my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty." - Jonathan Rosenbaum

　　The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The young men commit petty crimes all day begin with arms theft, and culminating with a night with three streetwalkers. After their pleasure, the boys try to cheat the hookers, but they ladies are smarter than that and have stolen their cash ahead of time. The punks then return to the city for more crimes. Exploits include the harassment of three homosexuals, and attempts to seduce some women.

　　阿里，一个20多岁的年轻人，在突尼斯的街头以违法贩卖汽油为生，警察还总来抽油水，他的生活很不稳定。阿里梦想能通过自己的努力去欧洲过上更好的生活，但父亲的突然去世使得养育两个妹妹、偿还债务的重担落在了他的肩上。正当他们全家即将被赶出家门时，一个机会落在了阿里面前。然而，在一个充满腐败的社会里，“机会”总是意味着“非法”，这个决定很可能会令他无法回头。

　　A singer swaps the political intimidation of working in East Germany for the equally controlling capitalist music industry in the West.

　　阿兰．德龙主演的这部犯罪动作片，摒弃了一般银行抢劫后分赃不均而终被逮捕的老套情节，把劫宝的场面安排在飞机上进行，结局则是因家族内一次无意揭发的奸情而致西西里部落全被逮捕。影片布局可谓层次分明，有峰回路转之妙。从开幕西西里家族营救囚车中的萨丹开始，便推展出不少戏剧性的高潮，如阿兰．德龙如何外出召妓惹祸；保险公司随员的太太如何发现丈夫不在飞机上而在报警时认出阿兰．德龙；探长如何监视阿兰．德龙的妹妹而使西西里兄弟被捕等，这些设计都能顺里成章而前后呼应。

　　电影从异常沉闷的养蜂人斯皮罗女儿婚礼开始，婚礼结束后斯皮罗依旧跟着养蜂人的队伍南方放养蜜蜂，他已经习惯这样的飘泊，所以他准备告别家人，从此独自在路上。半道上他遇到了失恋的少女搭车，他好心让无处可去的少女在旅馆住了一夜。继续上路的他遇见了儿时的玩伴，他们追忆着年轻的日子，同时他在少女青春的张扬和活力里重新有了生命存在的确定，他甚至忘记了自己的年龄，有着“老夫聊发少年狂”的冲动。然，相聚是短暂的，当少女再度上路的时候，斯皮罗内心涌动着太多的伤感，他明白对于自己没有什么可以依恋的了，于是，在阳光下他打开了所有的蜂箱…….

　　刚果首都金沙萨。单亲母亲菲丽希缇每晚在低廉的小酒馆驻唱，结果儿子萨蒙突然遭遇摩托车事故面临截肢，让这个贫穷但骄傲的女人被迫到处筹钱为儿子手术，过程中她获得了杂工塔布的帮助，也更多遭遇了别人的冷眼和羞辱。可最后儿子没有摆脱截肢厄运......

　　寄给狱中丈夫的包裹突然打回头，妻子别无选择只得远赴西伯利亚寻找答案。列宁巨像矗立，铁幕阴影无处不在，人人落魄失魂自我麻醉，对一切视若无睹。的士司机说「监狱助人生存」，妻子面对高墙却处处受尽屈辱， 丈夫依然下落不明，欲知真相代价沉重。启发自陀思妥耶夫斯基的《温柔女子》，撕破温柔尽现残酷，暴露极权压迫至今仍阴魂不散。洛兹尼萨以纯酿伏特加，为俄罗斯民族的苦难干杯，留在喉头的，是烧心灼热与苦涩回味。

　　平克正在逃亡。夜里，空旷的街道上弥漫着末日的气息，整个城市似乎都在燃烧。麻醉剂在静脉和空气中打旋。他已经从某个“教士”领导的教派控制中解脱出来，决心掌握自己的命运，现在藏身于一家非法T恤工厂。平克寻找着末路之光，但鬼魂始终在他的周围游荡。这部实验性作品以哥伦比亚麦德林为背景，描绘了一个逃离危险邪教的年轻人的故事。

　　第53届嘎纳电影节金摄影机奖奖

　　做事一向理性的水利工程师沃尔特·费伯（山姆·夏普德 Sam Shepard 饰）搭乘的飞机中途失事，被迫降落在墨西哥的沙漠之中。然而在获救之后，沃尔特却一反常态地决定，与素不相识的德国商人去墨西哥丛林寻找多年都未曾连络过的朋友。当他们来到朋友的住处时，发现朋友已经自杀身亡。
　　沃尔特的第二段旅程开始在渡轮之上。年过中旬的沃尔特邂逅了妩媚的年轻女孩赛贝斯（朱莉·德尔佩 Julie Delpy 饰）。钟情于艺术的赛贝斯与专长于科学技术的沃尔特，看似是两个世界的人，然而一段不可控制的情愫在二人之间渐渐蔓延，相约同去欧洲南部旅行。在无意间，沃尔特得知赛贝斯正是自己年轻时女友汉娜（芭芭拉·苏科瓦 Barbara Sukowa 饰）之女。惊讶之余，沃尔特不得不怀疑她就是自己的亲生女儿。

　　特丽丝塔娜（凯瑟琳•德纳芙 Catherine Deneuve 饰）的母亲在临死前，把她托付给堂•路普（Fernando Rey 饰）照顾。衰老的路普衣食无忧，性格强势看重荣誉，但同时，也是镇上女人们所熟知的好色之徒。路普表面上是特丽丝塔娜的监护人，而他实际对后者抱有隐而未发的强烈欲望。
　　特丽丝塔娜在路普的家中感受到压抑，女仆和女仆的聋哑儿子也远不是她可以倾诉心事的友人。在一次外出中，塔里斯塔纳偶遇一位年轻的画家，后者令她看到了爱情的希望，知晓特丽丝塔娜处境的画家殴打了路普，两人一起离开小镇。不久，特丽丝塔娜罹患重病，无计可施的画家只好寻求路普的帮助……

　　转自：http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/2010/views-from-the-avant-garde-friday-october-1/views-from-the-avant-garde-jean-marie-straub
　　“The end of paradise on earth.”—Jean-Marie Straub
　　The 33rd verse and last chant of “paradise” in Dante’s Divine Comedy. The film starts with verse 67, “O somma luce…” and continues to the end. “O Somma luce” recalls the first words uttered by Empedocles in Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s 1987 The Death of Empedocles—“O himmlisch Licht!…” (O heavenly light!). This extract from Hölderlin’s text is also inserted into their 1989 film Cézanne.
　　“O somma luce” invokes utopia, or better still “u-topos,” Dante, Holderlin, Cézanne… the camera movement, recalling Sisyphus, in the film’s long shots, suggests its difficulty.
　　In O somma luce, with Giorgio Passerone’s Dante and the verse that concluded the Divine Comedy, we find at the extremity of its possibilities, the almost happy speech of a man who has just left earthly paradise, who tries to fully realize the potential of his nature. Between the two we find the story of the world. The first Jean-Marie Straub film shot in HD.
　　So singular are the textual working methods of Straub-Huillet, and now Straub on his own, that it is hard to grasp how far reaching they are. Direction is a matter of words and speech, not emotions and action. Nothing happens at the edges, everything is at the core and shines from there alone.
　　During the rehearsals we sense a slow process by which ingredients (a text, actors, an intuition) progress towards cohesiveness. It is, forgive the comparison, like the kneading of dough. It is the assembling and working of something until it becomes something else… and, in this case, starts to shine. Actually it’s very simple, it’s just a question of opening up to the light material that has been sealed up. Here, the process of kneading is to bring to life and then reveal. The material that is worked on is speech. So it is speech that becomes visible—nothing else. “Logos” comes to the cinema.
　　The mise en scène of what words exactly?
　　The process of revealing, “phainestai”; “phainomenon,” the phenomenon, is what take splace, what becomes visible to the eye.
　　Is “Straubie” Greece?
　　This mise en scène of speech, which goes beyond a close reading of the chosen text, is truly comes from a distant source.—Barbara Ulrich

　　威尔斯唯一一部公映的彩色电影，故事依旧奇情：澳门富商从秘书口中听到一个爱情传说，有人为了香灯有后愿意付钱找人与妻子上床。传说归传说，但澳门富商却要使这个不朽故事成真，找来美女珍．摩露，当正是自己妻子，要她找人轰烈地做爱做的事。乍听下来真是一场天方夜谭，但影片拍来感人至深，53岁的威尔斯与成熟的珍．摩露演出动人不已，最后一个镜头更被影迷形容是「魔术」，令影片入围柏林国际电影节竞逐最佳电影金熊奖。
　　The only colour film by Welles publicly released is another showcase of the absurdity of human nature. A Macau millionaire is told a legend about someone who is willing to pay a huge sum for someone who would sleep with his wife in order to produce an heir. In an act to make the legend real and to immortalise it, the millionaire finds Jeanne Moreau to be his wife and starts to search for the man who would make love to her. A potent performance by Welles and Moreau makes the film purely magical; a Golden Berlin Bear nominee for Berlin International Film Festival.

　　《望夫石》（La Pierre de l'attente，1991），陳英雄一部21分鐘的短片，曾經獲得1992年里爾國際電影節（Lille International Short and Documentary Film Festival）評審團大獎

　　The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements: water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive: Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna.
　　The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator,
　　the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination.
　　Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.

　　吉尔吉斯坦共和国2010年佳作《盗光者》
　　一部反映现代文明与古老传统在经济发展转型期的冲突的电影，2010年戛纳电影节特别关注单元作品，2010年伦敦电影节、科特布斯电影节官方参赛作品
　　简介：影片讲述了一个多姿多彩、善恶分明的现代寓言故事，在吉尔吉斯斯坦共和国的一个名叫“风吹谷”的小山村里，毫不起眼的村电工致力于风力发电，这是整个山谷多年来得到光明的一个梦想，他的同情心和创造力解决了那些特困邻居与讨价还价的开发商之间矛盾。

　　德国慕尼黑，丈夫克里斯特告别了妻子亚丽安娜（Margit Carstensen 饰）与瘸腿女儿安吉拉（Andrea Schober 饰），赴奥斯陆公干，但他在半路中转，约会了情人并将其带到自己的乡间别墅。但他意外发现亚丽安娜与情人——自己的助手早已抵达别墅偷情，四人很快在尴尬的气氛中回过神来，坐到了一张桌子上享用晚餐。负责照料别墅的卡斯特与加百列母子注视着四人，内心各有不同的触动。当天夜里，安吉拉在保姆的陪伴下亦抵达别墅，她的出现让亚丽安娜为其腿疾绷紧的神经再次拉紧，气氛一时僵硬。
　　第二天夜里，安吉拉组织别墅里的所有八人进行一场叫做“中国轮盘赌”的问答游戏，分成两组的八人互相提问作答，牵出了各自内心隐藏的秘密。

　　安东尼亚与荷西两个男人阶级迥异却友情暧昧，长大后富家子安东尼亚娶下荷西的青梅竹马女友，再搭上其狂野情人作入室情妇，妒忌、怒火、博爱、义气、狂情，七情六欲共处一室，圣女娇妻道尽感情的争辩令人折服，妓女情妇也懂得最知性的语言教人称奇。导演超过九十年人生智慧的结晶，在波图优美景致与连绵小提琴的轻扬下，交织出一首最具葡萄牙地道性格的爱恋乐章。

　　兜兜转转，来去匆匆。
　　爱情忽然到来，却又悄然而去。经年回首，多少喜怒哀乐已为晕染，乃至伊人面庞亦不再清晰。或只为一丝留恋，抑或那淡而甜蜜的情怀，故将步伐从奔波劳累中移开，来至这曾留下多少梦幻的城市。浪漫之都，大街小巷，遍寻不见那名为希尔维娅的女孩。
　　你在哪里？可曾记得数载之前的爱恋？
　　本片荣获美国Premios ACE奖最佳导演奖。

　　今天的阿尔及利亚：三个故事，三代人。穆拉德，一位离过婚的房地产开发商，觉得身边所有人都在逃避他。艾莎，一个年轻的女孩，在情人和未婚夫之间两难挣扎。达曼，一位神经学家，在婚礼前的一天突然被他的过去所困扰。

　　帕荣迪家族男丁新旺，可惜生在贫穷的农村，于是，母亲决定带着四个儿子北上，来到米兰投奔先一步到达的大儿子文森（Spiros Focás 饰）。兄弟们的到来给文森造成了不小的麻烦，他被房东赶出住所 ，只得和一家人挤在冰冷的地下室。虽然日子过得清贫，但是兄弟五人在一起，也算是其乐融融，二哥西蒙（尼瓦多·莎瓦特利 Renato Salvatori 饰）拳击手的职业让三弟洛可（阿兰·德龙 Alain Delon 饰）跃跃欲试。
　　妓女娜迪亚（安妮·吉拉尔多 Annie Girardot 饰）的出现打破了一家人平静的生活，她隐瞒了和西蒙的露水情缘，倒是与洛可越走越近。东窗事发后，失去理智的西蒙在洛可面前玷污了娜迪亚。心碎的洛可离开了家人，将痛苦发泄到了拳击事业上，竟意外的获得了成功。与此同时，作为前辈的西蒙却在烟酒中渐渐荒废了事业。然而，兄弟二人之间的感情纠葛并没有就此结束，互相纠葛的亲情和爱情最终酿成了悲剧。

　　故事发生在车水马龙灯红酒绿的大都市巴黎，来自乡村的少年来此投奔哥哥乔治（蒂埃里·钮维 Thierry Neuvic 饰），却因为不知道哥哥公寓的密码而被关在了门外，就在这时，哥哥的女友安（朱丽叶·比诺什 Juliette Binoche 饰）出现在了少年的面前，带少年进入了公寓。
　　少年粗暴的对待乞丐玛利亚（吕明妮塔·杰尔吉乌 Luminita Gheorghiu 饰），遭到了黑人教师阿玛度（Ona Lu Yenke 饰）的严厉批评，之后，警察来了，反而逮捕的玛利亚和阿玛度。玛利亚因此而返回自己位于罗马尼亚的家乡，回到了丈夫道格拉斯（Bob Nicolescu 饰）身边。安的隔壁住了一个被虐待的孩子，向安求救，安不知该如何是好。镜头下的人们，每个人都有着自己的故事。

　　萨满是蒙古社会中重要的角色，时常被人们视作提供道德和精神指引的导师。但如果这位萨满是一名年仅17岁的高中生呢？影片的主人公泽是一名17岁性格温和的蒙古萨满。他既要履行他的巫者职务，又要兼顾高中生的课业，以求在当代蒙古这个冷酷无情的社会中获得成功……