For three Border Patrol agents working a remote desert checkpoint, the contents of one car will reveal an insidious plot within their own ranks. The next 24 hours will take them on a treacherous journey that could cost them their lives.
On a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors in her residential building about the affair that Mrs. Anna Maurrant and the milkman Steve Sankey are having. When the rude and unfriendly Mr. Frank Maurrant arrives, they change the subject. Meanwhile, their teenage daughter Rose Maurrant is being sexually pressured by her married boss Mr. Bert Easter. She does however very much like her kind young Jewish neighbor Sam, who has a serious crush on her. The next morning, Frank Maurrant tells his wife that he is traveling to Stamford on business. Mrs. Maurrant meets the gentle Sankey in her apartment, but out of the blue Frank comes back home. He realizes his wife is upstairs with Sankey, and runs upstairs. We hear shots and see the two men struggling as Sankey tries to escape through the window. Maurrant runs out with a gun. He has killed Sankey and fatally wounded his wife. Maurrant is apprehended and is led away by police. He apologizes to his daughter Rose, who will now have to take care of herself and her young brother without either parent. Rose's boss offers once again to set her up in her own apartment, but she refuses. Then she sees Sam, and tells him she wants to leave the city. Sam pleads with her to let him go with her, but she tells him it will be better for the two of them to have a couple of years apart before they consider becoming a couple. Rose walks off down the street by herself.
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...
A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the High Priest as well.