本片根据米兰·昆德拉的同名小说改编。1968年,布拉格外科手术医生托马斯(丹尼尔·戴-刘易斯 Daniel Day-Lewis 饰)生活在对女人追逐的快乐中,享受着性的快感。画家萨比娜(莉娜·奥琳 Lena Olin 饰)是托马斯的红颜知己,但在一次去温泉疗养院出诊的过程中,托马斯结识了女招待特蕾莎(朱丽叶·比诺什Juliette Binoche 饰)。不久,特蕾莎只身来到布拉格,二人结婚。托马斯在婚后依然不改与萨比娜或其他女人偷情的恶习,特蕾莎无法忍受托马斯的不忠,深夜出走,却碰上苏联武装入侵捷克。三人先后逃亡至瑞士日内瓦,萨比娜认识了当地大学教授弗兰茨(德雷克·德·林特 Derek de Lint 饰),特蕾莎失去工作终日闷闷不乐,带着小狗卡列宁孤身重返布拉格。在自由与束缚之间,托马斯究竟该如何选择呢?
本片是1988年美国十佳影片之一,获1989年奥斯卡最佳摄影、最佳改编剧本提名,金球奖最佳剧情片和最佳女配角(莉娜·奥琳)提名,并获英国电影电视协会最佳改编剧本奖,美国影评人协会最佳导演和最佳影片奖。
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.