故事取材自辛普生夫人沃利斯生平事迹,是麦当娜继2008年《下流与智慧》之后执导的第二部影片,制片成本几乎都是她一个人自掏腰包,影片的总投入达到了3600万美元。
影片采取双线结构的,一条讲述英王爱德华八世(詹姆斯·达西 James D'Arcy 饰)和美国女人沃丽丝·辛 普森(安德丽亚·瑞斯波罗格 Andrea Riseborough 饰)之间的传奇罗曼史。“不爱江山爱美人”爱德华以爱情为名却让沃丽丝一生背负了所有的骂名。另一条线是1998年,纽约女子沃丽·维特若普(艾比·考尼什 Abbie Cornish 饰)在面对丈夫冷暴力的同时,着迷于沃丽丝和爱德华的爱情故事。她收集一切关于沃丽丝的资料,一遍又一遍地参观沃丽丝遗物拍卖会的展览。而在多次参观展览馆后邂逅了那里的保安(奥斯卡·伊撒克 Oscar Isaac 饰),让她找到了许久不见的热情。
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.