《芬巴的消失》讲的是芬巴和丹尼是一对生活在一个沉闷的爱尔兰小镇上好兄弟。芬巴到外闯荡,得到一个国际有名的足球队里踢球的机会,可是人家没有用上他。他就灰溜溜地回到了家乡,未能衣锦还乡令他很沮丧,和丹尼的关系也变得糟糕了。万念俱灰的情况下,他从桥上跳下去了,就此消失了。芬巴消失后几年,他从瑞典打电话给丹尼,丹尼追寻着这个消失的邻居的声音开始漫漫行程。丹尼来到瑞典北部的斯德哥尔摩,去往拉普兰,寻找芬巴。在那儿,丹尼不进见到了芬巴,还看到很多和善的人们以及可爱的阿比,但是他和芬巴的友谊发生了变化,生活也分开了。
《芬巴的消失》, 这部影片在拉普兰(挪威、瑞典、芬兰和苏联各国北部拉普兰人居住的地区)取的景,由于冰川解冻,影片的拍摄工作被迫停顿了6个月。
Finbar and Danny are close childhood friends who live in a depressing neighbourhood in an Irish town. Finbar gets the chance to play soccer in an international soccer team abroad but can't use it and comes back. He went as a hero and came back as loser. Even the relation to Danny gets worse. In an act of desperation he jumps from a bridge and just disappears. After years of missing Finbar, he calls Danny from Sweden and Danny follows this call disappearing from this neighbourhood, too. In an odyssey, Danny travels from Stockholm to the far north of Sweden, to Lappland, looking for Finbar. Up there, he does not only meet Finbar but also very nice people and the lovely Abbi. But the friendship to Finbar has changed and their lives evantually separate.
20世纪20年代,墨西哥。
随着新总统卡列斯的上任,一场关于政府和宗教的对峙在所难免。卡列斯是一位无神论者,而这时候墨西哥的天主教已经成为当地根深蒂固的一种文化,深入人心。卡列斯认为天主教破坏了整个墨西哥人民的思想,因此,他决定对墨西哥的教会进行肃清。卡列斯的做法自然引起了民众的级别反弹,周旋在墨西哥政府与教会之间的美国驻墨西哥大使(布鲁斯·格林伍德 Bruce Greenwood饰)努力想化解这场争执,但,这场关于信仰的战争,不可避免的爆发了。
政府一意孤行的采取血洗政策抓捕、杀害天主教徒,甚至在教堂里将牧师就地处决;牧师们被迫拿起武器自卫,在当地颇有威望的牧师维克多里奥(奥斯卡·伊撒克 Oscar Isaac饰)拿起机关枪,号召民众反抗强权;同时,曾立下赫赫战功、墨西哥最年轻的将军恩里克(安迪·加西亚 Andy Garcia 饰)也对政府的做法深感不满,他加入了反叛军,克多里奥一起对抗卡列斯的政府军。和在他的带领下,教会形成了一股强有力的武装力量。政府军视恩里克和克多里奥为眼中钉,一场针对他们二人的阴谋正在暗地里计划着;同时,恩里克并不是一个虔诚的天主教徒,他的一些所作所为,也引得反叛军内部不满,危机四伏,这场辉煌的信仰之战,能否取得最终的胜利?
The women who married Henry VIII have become defined
not by the way they lived but by the way their lives ended.
They are seen as victims of a bloated tyrant, deserving pity, but not
respect. However, have we under-estimated them and are historians right to
have merely portrayed them as bit-part players in Henry's story?
Using dramatic reconstruction and passionate narration,
eminent historian and presenter Dr David Starkey focuses
on the stories of the women themselves, revealing in
intimate detail their experiences of sex, childbirth and the glamorous,
dangerous life at court, including the deadly intrigues that dethroned
them.