Last at the Festival with 2017’s rural noir Dark River, a selection in the Platform programme, writer-director Clio Barnard returns to the Bradford, West Yorkshire setting of her earlier films for this tumultuous, fiercely affecting midlife love story. A bundle of good humour and nervous energy, Ali (Adeel Akhtar) is a British Pakistani working-class landlord who forges close bonds with his tenants. One day, while picking up one of his tenants’ children from school, he offers a lift to Ava (Claire Rushbrook), an Irish-born teacher and single mother of five. They bond almost instantly through their love of music, though Ali favours the high energy of Buzzcocks and hip-hop while Ava takes refuge in the quieter comforts of Bob Dylan and Karen Dalton. Despite their divergent backgrounds, differences in their stages of life, and the colour of their skin, despite the fact of Ali’s failing marriage and Ava’s fraught relationship with her adult and adolescent children, each finds themself irresistibly drawn to the other. But can their mutual desire transcend a barrage of personal obstacles? Inspired by people Barnard encountered while making her acclaimed features The Arbor and The Selfish Giant, Ali & Ava is a film that feels profoundly rooted in lived experience, blending a tender emotional complexity with an at times bracing depiction of trauma and grief. Akhtar and Rushbrook’s finely hued performances speak to the setting’s cultural diversity and tribal loyalties while yielding a vulnerability that’s alternately heart-wrenching and joyous. Their story serves as a reminder that it is sometimes the least likely connections that are the ones most worth pursuing. 沙龙之吻1994国语版演员表本片用一个香港警察从理想青年变成一代枭雄的过程,反应了香港五六十年代的社会问题。 1949年,热血青年雷洛(刘德华 饰)成为警察。当时,香港警察待遇不高,警察向商户们收取保护费的潜规则蔚然成风,雷洛不愿意和他们同流合污,受到同事们的排挤,也得罪了权倾一时的探长颜同(秦沛 饰),面临停职的危险,然而,探长陈统(关海山 饰)暗暗欣赏他,对他维护有加。 雷洛和杂货店老板的女儿阿霞(邱淑贞 饰)两情相悦,但是阿霞的父母不愿意女儿跟着他受苦,百般阻挠。雷洛借酒浇愁,到黑社会的赌场闹事,被人殴打,多亏探长陈统搭救,并帮他筹到了五万元的聘礼。 但是,1951年九龙东头村的大火,烧毁了雷洛的美梦。雷洛一家侥幸逃脱,阿霞家人却葬身火海,阿霞本人也音信全无。 转眼到了50年代末,雷洛经历了警队派系倾轧,几经浮沉,渐渐适应了香港警界,收保护费的事情也做得得心应手。他有幸娶到了“大捞家”白饭鱼的女儿,美丽泼辣白月娥(张敏 饰),靠着岳父的大力支持和自己在镇压1957年九龙暴动中的出色表现,荣升探长。 成为探长的雷诺规范了管区内收取保护费的制度,减少了各界冲突,深得上级的器重。恰逢油尖区探长退休,雷洛和颜同都成为了这个职位的有力竞争者,二人各自展开了行动,一时风起云涌,此时,雷洛意外遇见了一个人,让他震惊不已……