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 ...
相传天庭上将都统大元帅天蓬真君,因调戏嫦娥被玉帝贬下凡间却阴差阳错的掉进了正在产猪仔的猪圈里长成了一张猪脸,就在一筹莫展之际,天庭里的太白金星下凡为天蓬元帅指点了迷津,还送了一枚“愿望镯”并告知千万不要迷恋于女色,更不要与凡间女子谈情说爱,否则将永世不能回天庭,带着种种好奇和未知,天蓬元帅的修行生活开始了,前所未有的屈折,磕磕绊绊,人世间的无奈,生活的悲剧生态炎凉,直到遇到了一个充满阳光善良美丽的女孩“紫菱”,天蓬元帅的内心开始了一丝丝的小激动,突如其来的玉帝旨意传唤天蓬元师立即回天庭接受新的工作旨意,让他痛苦不堪,内心深处的抉择早已经有了定论,是留在凡间还是去履行玉帝的旨意,故事开始了!!!
20世纪50年代的意大利,一个充满激情的自由灵魂梦想着爱情、正义和更好的生活。但一段禁忌之恋却可能毁掉这一切。