6.0 英语 · 2021 · 英国 · 爱情片 

阿迪勒·阿赫塔尔,克莱尔·拉什布鲁克,梅西·夏克敦,肖恩·托马斯,Thomas Skelly,Isaac Gale,Travis Liversidge,Elliott Liversidge,埃洛拉·托尔基亚,Vinny Dhillon,Runa Begum,Ryan Hall,Barnabás Bodor,Ariana Bodorová,Fatima Bodorová,Sarlota Nagyov

　　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.

5.0 英语 · 2023 · 英国 · 欧美剧 

休·博纳维尔,杰克·劳登,多米尼克·库珀,夏洛特·斯宾塞,斯蒂芬妮·马蒂尼,埃蒙·埃利奥特,肖恩·吉尔德,埃洛拉·托尔基亚,Robyn,Betteridge,索菲亚·拉·波塔,Isabella,Nefar,Anil,Desai,伊恩·皮里,西恩·哈里斯,汤姆·库伦,弗兰基·威尔森,George,Taylor,鲍勃·克赖尔,吉安尼·卡尔切蒂,罗曼·朔姆堡,塔祖·卡尔瓦略,特蕾莎·马奥尼,吴国耀

BBC与Paramount 合作的这部六集剧集取材于有着“世纪之罪”之称的Brink’s-Mat抢劫案。1983年11月26日，六名带有武器的劫匪在希思罗机场附近的Brink’s-Mat仓库，原本策划实施现金抢劫的他们，却阴差阳错发现了由庄信万丰公司持有、多达3000公斤的金条；最后，他们掠夺了价值2600万英镑的黄金、钻石和现金，并成功逃脱。　　抢劫之后的大部分黄金都没有被追回，也仅有其中两名参与者被定罪。但这次重大的事件却造成了各种余波：曾经的庄信万丰银行陷入危机最后倒闭，伦敦码头区房地产涌入了脏钱，也流进各种国际范围的犯罪活动；至于“Brink-Mat的诅咒”也悄然而起，因为当初参与的人在后续的几十年前都最终死于枪杀。