杰姬·贾斯蒂斯（哈莉·贝瑞饰）是一名综合格斗选手，秋去秋但她不光彩地退出了这项运动。在那场格斗之后的数年里，秋去秋她一直不太走运，终日在愤恨和懊悔中度过，最后被经纪人兼男友德西（阿丹·坎托饰）劝去参加一场残酷的地下格斗，并吸引了格斗联盟组织者（沙米尔·安德森饰）的注意，他承诺会让杰姬重回八角笼。但当曼尼（小丹尼·博伊德饰）出现在她家门口时，她将注定踏上一条冷暖自知的救赎之路：曼尼是她的儿子，生下来没多久就被她放弃了。《逆转擂台》是奥斯卡金像奖得主哈莉·贝瑞的导演处女作，主演阵容包括安德莱内·列诺斯、希拉·阿蒂姆、瓦伦缇娜·舍甫琴科和斯蒂芬·麦金利·亨德森，该故事讲述了一名格斗选手的励志之旅，在所有人都认为杰姬已被淘汰出局时，她在赛场内外都重新找回了自己的力量。
回复 :转自：http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/2010/views-from-the-avant-garde-friday-october-1/views-from-the-avant-garde-jean-marie-straub“The end of paradise on earth.”—Jean-Marie StraubThe 33rd verse and last chant of “paradise” in Dante’s Divine Comedy. The film starts with verse 67, “O somma luce…” and continues to the end. “O Somma luce” recalls the first words uttered by Empedocles in Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s 1987 The Death of Empedocles—“O himmlisch Licht!…” (O heavenly light!). This extract from Hölderlin’s text is also inserted into their 1989 film Cézanne.“O somma luce” invokes utopia, or better still “u-topos,” Dante, Holderlin, Cézanne… the camera movement, recalling Sisyphus, in the film’s long shots, suggests its difficulty.In O somma luce, with Giorgio Passerone’s Dante and the verse that concluded the Divine Comedy, we find at the extremity of its possibilities, the almost happy speech of a man who has just left earthly paradise, who tries to fully realize the potential of his nature. Between the two we find the story of the world. The first Jean-Marie Straub film shot in HD.So singular are the textual working methods of Straub-Huillet, and now Straub on his own, that it is hard to grasp how far reaching they are. Direction is a matter of words and speech, not emotions and action. Nothing happens at the edges, everything is at the core and shines from there alone.During the rehearsals we sense a slow process by which ingredients (a text, actors, an intuition) progress towards cohesiveness. It is, forgive the comparison, like the kneading of dough. It is the assembling and working of something until it becomes something else… and, in this case, starts to shine. Actually it’s very simple, it’s just a question of opening up to the light material that has been sealed up. Here, the process of kneading is to bring to life and then reveal. The material that is worked on is speech. So it is speech that becomes visible—nothing else. “Logos” comes to the cinema.The mise en scène of what words exactly?The process of revealing, “phainestai”; “phainomenon,” the phenomenon, is what take splace, what becomes visible to the eye.Is “Straubie” Greece?This mise en scène of speech, which goes beyond a close reading of the chosen text, is truly comes from a distant source.—Barbara Ulrich
回复 :《内德的步枪》是三部曲的最终章，前两部分别是《傻子亨利》(Henry Fool)和《国家密码》(Fay Grim)，为以另类眼光看美国社会的边缘提供了一个恰到好处的结尾。在这部电影中，Henry（Thomas Jay Ryan 饰，《傻子亨利》片中角色）和Fay（Parker Posey 饰，《国家密码》片中角色）也出现了，但他们变成了一幅画像，慈爱地看着他们的儿子Ned，Ned今年十八岁，最近才刚从证人保护计划中释放。尽管基督教徒从他的养父-一个教堂牧师手中接过他抚养，但Ned还是设定了报仇的目标：杀死他的父亲，因为那个人毁了他母亲的生活。当这个严肃又端庄的年轻人开始他的复仇之旅，他很快就发现自己进入了典型的哈特利式的异端分子的团伙中……
回复 :Odette是个八岁的小女孩，喜欢跳舞和画画。她非常讨厌父母亲的一个朋友，因为他总是想和她玩“挠痒痒”的游戏。成年后，Odette终于能够畅所欲言，回顾她的舞蹈演员生涯以及生活中的漩涡……
