1930年代英格兰,一幢始建于查尔斯二世的废弃城堡,一段飘然消逝的秘密往事。十七岁的少女卡珊多拉·莫特梅恩(萝玛拉·嘉瑞 Romola Garai 饰)随古怪的家人,父亲詹姆斯(比尔·奈伊 Bill Nighy 饰)、继母托帕斯(塔拉·菲茨杰拉德 Tara Fitzgerald 饰)以及妹妹萝丝(萝丝·拜恩 Rose Byrne 饰)一起生活在这座与世隔绝的破旧城堡中。忧郁而美丽的卡珊多拉酷爱写作,而一家人除了作家父亲支持她外,都把她当作怪人看待。古堡主人科顿兄弟尼尔(马克·布鲁卡斯 Marc Blucas 饰)和西蒙(亨利·托马斯 Henry Thomas 饰)来到城堡。不久,萝丝与西蒙坠入爱河,准备结婚。就在不知不觉中,卡珊多拉也爱上了西蒙。然而卡珊多拉不曾想过,尼尔一直在默默地深恋着她。
影片改编自英国家喻户晓的作家道迪·史密斯的同名畅销小说。
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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...
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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.