修女海伦(苏珊·萨兰登 Susan Sarandon 饰)受死刑犯马修·庞斯莱(西恩·潘 Sean Penn 饰)之托,前往监狱探望他。马修否认残杀年轻情侣被判死刑,提出上诉。海伦一路走访,深入村庄调查真相。一方面是被虐杀而死的无辜情侣,一方面是即将被处决的罪犯的精神依托, 海伦使尽各种办法帮助马修,但当她面对受害者双亲的痛诉以及公众的愤怒时,海伦的内心也陷入纠结的道德审判中。海伦最终感化了马修。行刑前,马修承认自己的罪行并祈求得到受害者家人的宽恕,安心而有尊严的走完人生的最后168小时。 本片改编自修女海伦·普雷金的真实故事,苏珊·萨兰登因本片荣获第68届奥斯卡最佳女主角。
A village on the Georgian Black Sea is full of friendly people convinced they know each other. One day, Eliko is found hanged. His granddaughter Moe comes to organize his funeral. She is confronted with a web of lies and the tragic consequences of Eliko’s hidden love life with Amnon, which lasted 22 years. The truth however frees Moe’s capability to love and forces the villager...
Tania is an actress, 43. Thore is 15, a misfit in a small village at the northern tip of Germany. At the beginning of winter, Tania escapes from her numb life to the village. They meet. She decides to steal him from his parents. The actress Tania travels from Munich to a village in the north of Germany. The skies are grey, just like the sea and the wintery plains. Her feelings are also covered in a grey veil of mist. Her painful past makes it impossible for this forty-something to feel anything at all. The arrival of the stranger is immediately noticed in the tight-lipped community, but she is hardly welcome. Only the teenager Thore, whose imagination is too much for this no-man’s-land, has contact with her. A fragile band develops between them - attraction, rejection and occasionally sexually charged. Thore reveals a need in Tania, one she didn’t know she had. She decides to ‘steal’ Thore to come to terms with her own loss. Rough is a directing debut filmed with great poise and with a sharp eye for this beautiful yet slightly depressing landscape and the people who inhabit it. The camera first functions as a detached observer, then as an accomplice, always very close to Tania.