热爱岛

　　一群矿工在沙漠中意外发现了一种白色的、黏黏的"东西"（the stuff)，尝起来甜甜的、很美味，美味到有点儿让人上瘾。于是这种东西被开采出来，包装成雪糕的样子进行销售，并号称“零糖分、零卡路里、质感幼滑、美味大满足”。
　　the stuff很快俘获了全国消费者的心，大幅占据市场，使其他雪糕销售一落千丈。于是，雪糕行业聘了一个专卖垃圾食品的商人（Garrett Morris饰）去调查这种“东西”到底是什么东西，并去毁灭它。
　　经过一番努力，Garrett Morris发现这种产自沙漠的美味“东西”实际上是有生命、有知觉的，背后的真相令人毛骨悚然：stuff会逐渐入侵使用者的大脑，最后使人变成僵尸样的怪物。
　　查明真相后，一名退役军官（Paul Sorvino饰）带领一队兵团，与the stuff进行搏斗。
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　　电影尖锐地批判消费主义，到底是我们在购物，还是商品在蚕食我们的心？片中有大量激爽镜头，包括“雪糕”从人眼里、嘴里奔涌而出，冰箱中的“雪糕”将人冲到天花板，等等。

　　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 ...

　　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？