性工作者继续谈,邱礼涛再次挑战社会忌讳,不再是灯红酒绿的夜晚,而是深水埗的企街世界。时光回卷到2000年的香港,2R Race扮演一个嫁港伯生仔的内地女人,不惜出卖肚皮来换居港权取综援,因丈夫工伤逝世而遇上了保险经纪黄秋生。刘美君饰演满口烂牙的企街,染上毒瘾卖肉赚钱,一次勇救小童得到名摄影师森美的同情,39岁转运有望。两位在社会边缘挣扎的女性,卖身也好,卖子宫亦好,企街与嫁个香港人,故事笑中有泪,看尽人生百态。《性工作者十日谈》引起不少回响,编导邱礼涛与杨漪珊再次携手,打造Made in Hong Kong的性工作者电影系列。导演阐述其实,《性工作者十日谈》(下称《性工作者》)和《我不卖身.我卖子宫》(下称《我不卖身》)两个剧本的初稿早在2002年便写好了。当时,我的打算是先开拍《我不卖身》,主要是因为它比《性工作者》相对地有着较强的故事性。表面看来,《性工作者》的故事人物多,情节散;当初大部份读过剧本的人都以松散来形容之。可是,由于种种原因,《我不卖身》开不成,而两个剧本亦被闲置在我的书桌上达千日之久。直至2006年,《性工作者》幸运地找到投资者,我和杨漪珊便因应香港社会和在地性工作者的境况,把剧本作了很大的修改,但仍冒著「松散的危险,把原剧本的主要人物保留下来,因为我们认为性工作者是一个社群;在篇幅上,不宜太集中地描写某一、两个特定人物。后来拍成的《性工作者》得到相当多的正面回响,也促使《我不卖身》可以成为电影。《我不卖身》的主要人物有四个,分别是当企街的性工作者黎钟钟(刘美君饰)、嫁港伯争取居留权的黄莲花(黄婉伶饰)、卖保险的刘富意(黄秋生饰)和硬照摄影师阿志(森美饰)。前两者都是社会大论述下被边缘化的妇女,后两者则象征着社会的某种主流观见。也许大家可以简单地以写实电影来形容《我不卖身》;无可否认的是,电影里的人物和情节都是有感而发,但归根究底,写实其实也只是一种创作上的手段,而且,现实素来比电影更苦。于我,《我不卖身》不是现实的反映,它充其量也只是我对香港社会现实的一些观见、或对香港社会现实的一种乐观话语(discourse)。我深明白的是,在社会的大论述底下,为某些人发声很多时都是吃力不讨好,但也正正因为这个原因,我更加珍惜拍摄这样一个电影的机会,也十分希望观众会来捧场。特别感谢刘美君和黄婉伶的参演,更感谢好友黄秋生对这电影的诚意和支持。人人头上一片天;黎钟钟、黄莲花、刘富意、阿志、你和我亦然。
Renowned Indian filmmaker SS Rajamouli has announced the release of Baahubali: The Epic, an ambitious two-part re-edited version, on its 10th anniversary (Thursday). According to Rajamouli's post on X, Baahubali: The Epic is a combination of Baahubali: The Beginning (2015) and Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017).
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Lebanon, 1982. To keep a promise made to an old friend, Georges, an idealistic theater director, travels to Beirut for a project as utopian as it is risky: to stage the play Antigone on the front line, in order to steal a moment of peace from the raging civil war. The characters will be played by actors from different political and religious camps. Lost in a city and a conflict he knows nothing about, Georges is guided by Marwan. As fighting resumes, everything is soon called into question, and Georges, who falls in love with Imane, has to face up to the reality of war.
When a young boy's mother and father are savagely murdered, he ages out of an orphanage intent on revenge, but the love of a girl and psychological trauma lead him down a mystifying path.
An adaptation of his own novel of the same name. "Dix ans que les deux hommes s’étaient perdus de vue et puis, d’un coup, ils se retrouvaient au détour d’une rue, face à face. Le hasard, paraît-il, fait bien les choses. S’il s’agissait de lui, il aurait mieux fait ce jour-là de se mêler de ce qui le regardait, mais il n’y était pour rien. Skender le comprendrait bientôt, ce n’est pas le hasard qui avait mis Max et Madame sur son chemin. Il le comprendrait bientôt."
The story revolves around Gabriel and Idriss whose lives have taken very different directions since an argument. Gab is a cop in Internal Affairs who plays by the books. Driss is a fixer for the mob who sells his services to the highest bidder. They’re brought back together by the brutal death of Sofia, their childhood friend from the orphanage. Killed in a car accident, Sofia leaves behind Leïla, her 17-year-old daughter. Determined to find the killer, Leïla unwittingly tracks down the son of a ruthless businesswoman who relies on vicious henchmen to protect her family’s secrets. With no time to settle their personal scores, the two orphans must now join forces to find Leïla before she commits an irredeemable act…