The least-seen of Mackendrick’s Ealing pictures, The Maggie tells an unusual story of a culture clash between the Old and New Worlds. Its title is the name of a decrepit Scottish vessel whose wily captain blackmails an American tycoon into using his ramshackle boat to move valuable furniture to an island mansion. Mackendrick's precursor to Local Hero applies an almost anthropological interest in the vestiges of village culture in the postwar world to establish an irresolvable dichotomy between Yankee pragmatism and materialism and the penurious charm and superstitions of the islander
导演认识了两位“朋友”。他与他们之间的交往构成了这部片子。开始,他并没有一个明确的计划要制作一部纪录片,但随着时间的推移,他开始有目的和他们交“朋友”。“朋友”们奇迹般地允许导演进入他们的生活,他们吸毒也贩毒的生活。
纪录片的制作者和被拍者之间到底应该是一种什么样的关系,这部影片给出了它的解释。
The director himself (who’s also a journalist) encountered in an interview a small group of people who, despite all odds, willingly invite him into their world of drug use and peddling. That’s how “Using” was born.
What exactly is the relationship between a filmmaker and those being portrayed, “Using” has the answer.
When a large Iranian-American family gathers for the patriarch's heart transplant, a family secret is uncovered that catapults the estranged mother and daughter into an exploration of the past. Toggling between the United States and Iran over decades, mother and daughter discover they are more alike than they know.
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https://festival.sundance.org/program/film/638a207277dd3d85c
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