A glance leads to a smile, a smile to a rendezvous: every love story begins the same way. These narratives are stored in songs and poems and live on beyond their inevitable endings, as Shakespeare’s titular sonnet 18 also suggests. In Mohammad Shawky Hassan’s metafictional essay, a female narrator who wishes to tell the story of a love between two men encounters a polyamorous chorus of lovers, and this oft-told tale is multiplied. In Club Scheherazade, there is no protagonist, and every song has various versions. Heteronormative dramaturgy is challenged polyphonically and across a range of media: lovers ask each other about threesomes, Grindr contacts and past dates. Pop clichés are twisted, heartache permeates the men’s singing, and poems by Wadih Saadeh are read out while a lover’s dirty laundry is aired. The narrator mischievously tries for a happy ending as her characters exit the story. “If pain could be forgotten through words,” we hear at one point, “no lover would ever have to walk away wounded.”
阿尔瓦罗(哈维尔·古铁雷斯 Javier Gutiérrez 饰)是在公证处里上班的小小职员,拿着一份非常微博的薪水,常年生活在贫穷之中。虽然生活压力巨大,但是阿尔瓦罗依然怀揣着成为作家的梦想,无奈阿尔瓦罗实在是一个没有什么写作天赋的男人,所以直到今天,这个梦想依然孕育在襁褓之中。
阿曼达(玛利亚·莱昂 María León 饰)是阿尔瓦罗的妻子,和丈夫的平庸恰恰相反,阿曼达随随便便的写了一本书,哪知道一炮而红。充满了困惑的阿尔瓦罗向自己的老师胡安(安东尼奥·德·拉·托雷 Antonio de la Torre 饰)请教成名秘诀,胡安告诉阿尔瓦罗,想要写出好的故事,必须从现实里取材。
Воспитанник детского дома Санёк решает найти родителей для себя и своей подопечной Алеси. Мальчик вынужден играть по взрослым законам, что ставит его перед серьезным нравственным выбором.
Cette histoire sordide d'un flic de Chicago empêtré dans le vice est racontée par la ville elle-même (s'appuyant sur le fameux poème de Carl Sandburg !) durant 24 heures bien remplies. Remerciements à Martin Scorsese pour la copie.
Exploring the mass gang movement that originated in Birmingham and other industrial cities in the 19th century and evolved into modern gangsterism in the early 20th.