2012多伦多国际影展竞赛片，治疗真实故事改编，治疗麦可米高文执导，詹姆斯克隆威尔与詹妮薇芙布卓联合主演。脑海的橡皮擦，渐渐拭去妳对我的记忆，但我对妳的爱永不放弃89岁的老人克雷格与妻子艾琳结缡60载，两人长久以来居住的房屋，随着日晒雨淋逐渐损毁，不适人居。克雷格继承了父辈的造船手艺和事必躬亲的精神，决定帮罹患失智症的妻子打造新家。但时过境迁，他採用昔日的建筑工法，已不符合现今的法规，因此被一个偏执政府官员盯上，多次发出停工禁令，眼看着爱妻的病情愈发严重，克雷格面对强制出庭，甚至是牢狱之灾的威胁，于是让他做出最后一个决定…。现实生活中的克雷格，本人相当有自信，并且富有幽默感。他很骄傲自己靠着务农，一路照顾自己的妻子和七个孩子至今。充满活力的言谈，让人完全感受不到他早已超过90岁高龄。导演描述他时说道：｢他是那种无所不知的人，知道怎麽造桥、铺路甚至是盖房子…。他的灵魂独立自主，而且深深启发了我。｣
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回复 :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.
回复 :Biologist and extreme angler, Jeremy Wade, is on the hunt for freshwater fish with a taste for human flesh. Jeremy travels the globe risking life and limb, to investigate freshwater mysteries and uncover the truth about the dark secrets of our planet's rivers.
