The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'gMaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.
“The Chosen Ones” turns on 15-year-old, Ulises, who is being groomed by his father to enamor young girls, tricking them into prostitution. But he falls in love with Sofia, his first victim, who’s just 14. To save her, his father demands he seduces a second girl, entangling Ulises in the world of juvenile prostitution that he was trying to avoid, from which escape come at a very high price.
Violette, 16, a promising young swimmer, has decided to live her homosexuality openly. Supported by her loving parents, she blossoms and fall in love with Lisa. While it's more difficult for Lisa to show her true feelings, they're going to experience the joy of first love together. But when Violette is assaulted in the street while they were holding hands, their relationship takes a dramatic turn.
Two years into the pandemic, a group of friends throw an online party with a night of games, drinking and drugs. After taking an ecstasy pill, things go terribly wrong and the safety of their home becomes more terrifying than the raging chaos outside.
戴高乐将军逝世50周年之际,这部传记纪录片重温他从1890年出生到1970年死后葬于科隆贝双教堂村的一生。这部史诗记录这位改变了历史、对法国人带来深远影响的男人,所具有的高瞻远瞩和背负人生使命。直到今天,不少政治人物仍深受戴高乐主义的影响,自视为戴高乐思想遗产的继承人。即使在他逝世50年后,查尔斯·戴高乐在法国人的集体记忆中,仍具有十分崇高的地位。
50 ans après la mort du Général De Gaulle, ce film retrace son parcours, de sa naissance en 1890 à son enterrement à Colombey-Les-Deux-Eglises en 1970. Cette épopée raconte la force visionnaire et le destin rectiligne de cet homme qui a changé le cours de l'Histoire et qui influence encore la vie des Français. Certains dirigeants politiques revendiquent encore aujourd'hui une partie de son héritage. Charles De Gaulle reste l'Homme providentiel dans l'imaginaire collectif des Français, même 50 ans après sa mort.
Erstwhile Special Forces operative Doc Alexander is asked to broker a truce with the Mexican drug cartel in secrecy. When Oklahoma Governor Richard Jeffs celebrates the execution of a high-ranking cartel member on TV, his Chief of Staff and Doc inform him about the peace he just ended. But it’s too late, as Cuco, the cartel’s hatchet man, has set his vengeful sights on Doc’s daughter Dixie.
They don’t make ’em like Little Dixie anymore: honed to the bone, all gestures and actions, only a few words. Too many genre films these days try to create meaning by piling ideas and intentions on their narrative frames. John Swab, as always, works the other way around. Meaning and depth come from taking away whatever is superfluous – by reducing the plot to its bare essence and the characters to their core trades and tricks.
Ultimately, Little Dixie feels like the pulp fiction version of a Giacometti sculpture, all fearful symmetries and mirror images. A gem of crime cinema at its purest and most philosophical, proudly featuring noir’s new darling, Frank Grillo.
源自:
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2023/films/little-dixie