他是个有名的记者,也是个众所周知的风流公子。在爱上一个过着双重生活的神秘模特后,他开始重新思考自己的人生选择
Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter. Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...
影片故事延续前作,路奇乌斯(保罗·麦斯卡 Paul Mescal 饰)童年时亲眼目击受万人景仰的英雄马克西蒙斯死于舅舅之手,多年后已长大成人的他,在暴君的铁腕统治下,被迫进入竞技场为生存而战。心中充满怒火的路奇乌斯,眼见罗马帝国的未来岌岌可危,决心讨回本属于他的权力和荣誉 ,还罗马人民一个辉煌的罗马。
德高望重的亚历山大(让·雷诺 Jean Reno 饰)多年来一直是米其林餐厅的三星主厨,但是近来他的境遇却屡现危机。当下的法国料理界正是”分子料理”风靡,传统料理日渐衰落的时代,亚历山大所坚持的传统料理很有可能会在即将到来的星级评审中落败,餐厅的小开更是翘首以盼可以就此炒了他。正当亚历山大焦头烂额之时,一名名不见经传的小厨师杰克(迈克尔·扬 Michaël Youn 饰)出现了,杰克是亚历山大食谱的忠实追随者,却因对料理的狂热固执屡次失业,只好在养老院找了份油漆工作。一个偶然的机会,亚历山大让杰克到他的餐厅实习,杰克与生俱来的料理天分和另辟蹊径的烹调创意令亚历山大大为赏识,很快成为其左右手。星级评审越来越近,两位传统烹饪大师的合作能否在挑剔的”分子料理”派面前力挽狂澜呢?