备受梦魇折磨的年轻男子让·伯洛特(帕沃·里斯卡 Pavel Liska饰)反复做着同样一个梦境:两个恶魔闯进他的卧室,把他推进了疯人院。心力憔悴的伯洛特偶遇神秘侯爵马奎斯(杨·特里斯加 Jan Triska饰)。这个扬言要救治伯洛特的怪异侯爵,引诱伯洛特来到一间阴森恐怖的疯人院。黏着的空气,病态的疯人,黑暗之中穿插的“生肉表演”以及一系列令人作呕的放荡作为,让失魂落魄的伯洛特彻底崩溃了。当他从看似纯美的护士夏洛特(安娜·吉赛罗娃 Anna Geislerová饰)口中得知院长和侯爵的丑恶的面目时,这场炼狱般的噩梦才刚刚开始。 这部由捷克电影和动画大师杨·史云梅耶创作的超现实主义作品《梦魇疯人院》,荣获2005年皮尔森电影节最佳影片,2006年捷克金狮奖最佳艺术指导、海报设计等奖项,并代表捷克参加2007年奥斯卡最佳外语片的角逐。史云梅耶在开篇就警告世人,这是一部考验你视觉极限和挑战你心理极限的反美学的影片。他以此片向死亡美学大师爱伦·坡和色情作家萨德侯爵致敬。骇人的生肉与内脏,悚然的仪式与噩梦,一起构筑起了这座彻底癫狂病态的梦魇疯人院。
Fleeing from their violent father, siblings Lucía and Adrián take refuge in a remote mansion. With the help of a hidden micro-camera on a cat, Lucía uncovers a terrifying secret: their neighbors are part of a criminal network that kidnaps teenage girls to make snuff films, and they intend to get rid of the siblings. As Lucía fights to protect her brother, she must face a dark family curse that follows them into their newfound sanctuary.
In 2013, an Australian man a few months shy of turning 60 decided to walk the Camino de Santiago – an 800km pilgrimage trail across the top of Spain. He had no known religion, and absolutely no idea why he felt so deeply compelled to do this torturous walk. But compelled, he was. He completed the walk, battling a “triumvirate of pain” - a knee that he later discovered lacked an...
Calvin Trask lives in a dead end Arctic town on the fringes of society, until mysterious stranger Lucas Wade arrives, turning his solitary life upside down. Calvin's curiosity gets the better of him and is quickly pulled into Lucas' dangerous world. As secrets slowly unravel, Calvin realises just what kind of jeopardy he's put himself in, a place where murder and betrayal are a...
In 2013, an Australian man a few months shy of turning 60 decided to walk the Camino de Santiago – an 800km pilgrimage trail across the top of Spain. He had no known religion, and absolutely no idea why he felt so deeply compelled to do this torturous walk.
But compelled, he was.
He completed the walk, battling a “triumvirate of pain” - a knee that he later discovered lacked any meaningful cartilage, a blister the sight of which would make a grown man weep, and shin-soreness that felt like his lower limb had been split with a mountain axe wielded by a demented troll.
Arriving at the end of the Camino, the majestic cathedral in Santiago de Compostela, he expected an epiphany – an answer to the question he’d been asking himself every day: Why am I doing this?
But no answer came.
So when he got home he wrote a book, hoping the answer would reveal itself in his scribblings. The result was The Way, My Way, a humourous and self-deprecating book that many consider the best memoir ever written on walking the Camino.
The book has now been made into a film, and it’s an extraordinary account of a man at a pivotal point in his life, searching for meaning and finding himself undergoing a fundamental transformation so profound that he now divides his life into “Before the Camino” and “After the Camino.”
It’s a story particular to one man, yet of appeal to anyone seeking a greater meaning from life.