When the film begins, it is all over. “We know it’s terminal, and that’s all”, says Juliane of her mother Kerstin, who is in great pain and about to die aged just 64. Although the young doctor she consults acknowledges on a personal level that everyone has the right to manage their own death, he nonetheless reminds her that euthanasia is still illegal in Germany. This is even more the case at the Catholic hospice where Kerstin is staying. As relatives come to say goodbye to her mother and the emotions of memories mingle with the anticipation of grief, Juliane finds herself having to do battle with time – unbending, apathetic and monochrome – and this is superbly reflected in the convulsions of the handheld camera in wide shots.
Based on personal experience, Jessica Krummacher’s second feature film vividly relates the painful story of losing a parent. There is no violence or morbidity, rather the director describes the most important of events via the smallest, most fragile of details – the exchanging of words, texts and tender gestures that remain with us and get under our skin.
The Unheard follows 20-year-old Chloe Grayden (Lachlan Watson), who after undergoing an experimental procedure to restore her damaged hearing, begins to suffer from auditory hallucinations seemingly related to the mysterious disappearance of her mother.
故事发生在1936年的德国,那一年,在德国柏林举办了第11届奥林匹克运动会。乔治(让-保罗·贝尔蒙多 Jean Paul Belmondo 饰)是一名来自法国的拳击教练,尽管他对法西斯的残暴统治深恶痛绝,但迫于形势也只能委曲求全。
乔治曾经在一战中担任过飞行员的职务,激烈的交战之中,他与名叫甘特(弗兰克·霍夫曼 Frank Hoffmann 饰)的德国飞行员相识了,两人之间产生了真挚的友谊。在奥运会上,乔治和甘特重逢了,他们的友谊并没有因为时间的流逝而沾染尘埃。一次偶然中,乔治和甘特遇见了一名犹太男孩,男孩悲惨的境遇令两个男人心中十分不忍,他们决定联起手来,尽各自所能,将男孩和他的家人送往境外。
A circus operator and his gymnast friends belonging to a big circus company 'juggle' with their lives and try to bring back the extinct circus culture to the public.