本片根据社会活动家约翰·戴维森的人生经历改编。他年少时被诊断出患有妥瑞氏综合征,会不受控制地抽动身体或口吐恶言。妥瑞氏综合征迫使约翰与同龄人疏远,而他则不懈与这种鲜为人知的症状作斗争,积极为妥瑞氏人群发声。
Facing a long winter of lockdown and combating a bad case of writer’s block, filmmaker Eric agrees to get a dog with his girlfriend Allie. A modern couple – vegan, ethical, millennial, neurotic – much research and negotiation leads to the arrival of Milly, a rescue from the Dominican Republic. This sets off a riotous chain of new challenges on how to best deal with this addition to the household. As Eric contends with a sinister dog-training programme, his introspection spills out onto his film work, with poor Allie and Milly taken along for the ride. The couple each pursue their own deepheld individual questions surrounding trust, purpose and roots, while wrestling with the idea of what it means to be a modern family. Milly, in the meantime, has a lot on her paws with these two! Part rom-com, part rescue-dog story, part autofiction, part self-indictment, part family scrapbook, this debut feature was made with remarkable economy and displays a disquieting amount of (often hilarious) emotional authenticity. Filmmaker Ben Petrie and creative collaborator Grace Glowicki play the young couple and in doing so, capture nothing less than what it means to be human.
“信天翁号"这次要从百慕大的圣乔治港出发,预计八个月后抵达加拉帕戈斯群岛。船上的14位乘客是来自海洋学院的学生。他们的国籍不同,家庭出身背景也不一样,但在船长谢尔顿的带领下,很快学会海上生存必须的本领以及自律和相处的能力,而这一切与船长的榜样力量是分不开的。然而就在航程即将结束的时候,他们遭遇到所有海员都闻之色变的无形飑--一秒钟内风速增加十几米。在白色的巨浪中,存活率据说只有万分之一...影片中的这个故事确曾发生于60年代,编剧的注意点放在了特定环境中的青年们的思想和性格变化上,内心戏配合上优美的摄影,使视觉效果更强烈。