公元4世纪,罗马帝国日渐衰落,在亚历山大港,多神教的智者希帕提娅(蕾切尔·薇姿 Rachel Weisz 饰)为弟子们授课。奥利斯蒂斯(奥斯卡·伊撒克 Oscar Isaac 饰)对她频频示爱,甚至在剧院大胆表白;奴隶达乌斯(麦克思·明格拉 Max Minghella 饰)也对她颇有好感,但因身份卑微无法启口。与此同时,基督教徒宣扬的自由,让达乌斯的信仰开始动摇,此举令他遭受鞭刑,是希帕提娅为他疗伤,抚慰了他的心灵。时局动荡,在多神教的挑动下发生暴乱,基督教转而取得优势,双方在亚历山大图书馆对峙。后来,接到了罗马统治者的号令,让多神教撤出图书馆,允许基督教徒进入,于是一场残酷的浩劫开始了……
本片为第62届戛纳电影节的非竞赛展映片,取景地为马耳他的里卡所里堡,这里曾是《角斗士》和《特洛伊》拍摄地。希帕提娅原定由妮可·基德曼出演,但因其在《黄金罗盘》中饰演反派,遭到基督教徒反感,因此换角。
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.