单身母亲

影片以西班牙传奇同志诗人费德里戈·加西亚·洛尔卡一份仅存四页的未竟剧本《黑球》为锚点，用160分钟精妙地编织了一幅叙事三联画：1932年，年轻的卡洛斯（米洛·基菲斯 饰）因为同性恋传闻在精英俱乐部投票中被投下“黑球”拒绝；1937年西班牙内战期间，被迫入伍的国民军小号手塞巴斯蒂安（Guitarricadelafuente 饰）与战俘产生了禁忌之恋；2017年，现代历史学者阿尔伯托试图在一份突然收到的遗嘱中寻找外祖父的秘密。

1968年泰国北碧府，黑豹师士兵Yak奉命深入空宽丛林，寻找失踪的情报官，同时追猎传说中能化为人形的不死食人虎妖Ai Khong。精锐小队在密林中接连遭遇猎杀，人与怪物的界限逐渐模糊，他们必须在虎妖的獠牙下死里逃生。

故事围绕三个本与犯罪无缘的女性展开：一位是突然得知丈夫挪用公款并被解雇、育有两个孩子的母亲和歌子（有村架纯 饰）；一位是深陷奖学金还款压力、负债600万日元的研究员清惠（黑木华 饰）；还有一位则是身无分文的未婚准妈妈麻由（南沙良 饰）。她们在新加坡偶然相遇，在危险的黄金走私过程中建立起深厚的情感羁绊，并试图以此夺回金钱与自由，开启一场逆袭人生的博弈。

被妖物控制的孤弱少女聂小倩，为给树妖姥姥准备贡品，偶然间遇到上京赶考的书生宁采臣。本性善良的小倩再多次与宁采臣接触后，被期纯真的品质锁打动。宁采臣得知小倩境遇后，请求燕赤霞取回小倩元魄，不料遭到黑山老妖阻拦，从而渡过了一段曲折艰辛从妖到人的经历。最终邪不胜正，宁采臣与聂小倩终成眷属。

This terrific coming-of-age film tells a story of growing up largely without parents, of the complex world of becoming an adult when the adults aren’t there. It’s the story of Flavia, autonomous and a bit uncouth; Flavia, whose mother works as a carer in Italy, her father on a construction site. She’s adopted a certain sarcasm she uses even with Luca, with whom she flirts in a cool way; the attraction is strong. Luca’s parents aren’t there either and his grandmother is frail, meaning he is the one more or less taking care of his sister Tina – who brings home two more kids with her one day. Fears of commitment and emotional blocks start to dissolve and, like in an adolescent novel, a self-chosen alternative family forms almost in passing, where living in freedom, critical relationships and taking care of one another are a given. Carried by Andrei Butică’s precise, yet loose-limbed camerawork and atmospheric direction inspired by Pialat and Rohmer, the adolescent ensemble takes on responsibility – and gets in the driving seat. Whether visiting caves in the forest or everyday life in a prefab block: their intelligence and vigour are delightful, the dynamics of their shared bonds subtle.