上海法租界老城区发生一起凶杀案。案发现场除了死者财叔外,还有受伤昏迷的上海华声广播电台播音员蓝妙如。蓝妙如双目失明,长期租住在财叔的房子里,与财叔常有往来。凶杀案发生后,巡捕房探长陈亨利带儿子陈天生出现场勘察。从现场勘察的结果和蓝妙如苏醒后的回忆推断,天生认为凶手应该是两个人,而蓝妙如就是“目击者”。 蓝妙如是陈探长夫人的崇拜偶像。蓝妙如出院后被陈太太接到自己家,安排在儿子天生的房间。从蓝妙如就餐时的反应和黑暗处时的神情来看,天生觉得蓝妙如作为“目击者”似乎有些问题。妙如稍有好转就到电台上班,借助媒体记者的关心,蓝妙如规劝凶杀案的两名凶手投案自首。 媒体的报道激起凶手江涛和豹子的气愤,也为蓝妙如招来杀身之祸。月上树梢,回到财叔公寓的蓝妙如遭到袭击,现场留下公寓底下开赌场的方文华的尸体。财叔的案情还没有进展,方文华又遭谋杀,而且现场遗留物显示凶手为同一个人作案,给父子探长造成压力。 方文华的死,引起天生对蓝妙如的更大怀疑。拜访蓝妙如,天生发现妙如的父亲生前是名忠义爱国的建筑设计师,十年前因一笔救灾款遭人杀害。随着天生的侦察和推理不断接近真相,凶杀也在不断进行,与蓝妙如所说的十年前救灾款有关的梁秀峰、豹子、江涛相继遇害。 经过缜密侦察和科学推理,天生果断结案,将一手策划财叔遇害、并亲手杀害方文华、梁秀锋、江涛的蓝妙如捉拿归案。原来,十年前蓝妙如的父亲因保护救灾款遭建筑包工头财叔一伙杀害后,当时年幼的蓝小玉因伤害双目失明。五年前,蓝小玉恢复视力,化名蓝妙如,着手复仇,策划谋杀。案情真相大白,蓝妙如在监狱服毒自杀,留下人们对于忠义、复仇与犯罪的深深思考,对蓝妙如主持的“美丽人生”节目的无限思念。
这部新片名为《梦乡》(Dreamland),由曾在圣丹斯电影节摘得评审团特别奖的导演Miles Joris-Peyrafitte执导。故事背景设定在20世纪30年代的美国,经济萧条和沙尘暴肆虐着美国的普通百姓,一个15岁的男孩为了高额的赏金开始漫漫追捕路,他的目标正是玛歌特·罗比饰演的女劫匪。
A young woman who has been separated from her daughter works one odd job after another while battling a brain disorder whose name she does not know, but which deforms her perception of time and reality. At a group therapy session, she agrees to a mysterious deal with one of the fellow participants. Shot on a shoestring budget but in magnificent 16mm, and co-written with the magnetic lead actress, Ariella Mastroianni, Gazer gazes back on the masters of the paranoid thriller of the 70s and 80s.
World War II is around the corner, but the only thing Sally Bauer can think of is the ocean. Her dream is to swim across the English Channel. Her father has tried to exorcise her obsession with swimming since she was a toddler, without success. An unwanted pregnancy forces her to abandon her dream – and herself. The child’s father does not want to be involved, so as a woman in the ‘30s in Sweden, Sally has no choice but to do what is expected of her: to be a mother. There is no place left for her dreams and Sally is pulled into bottomless darkness, until her sister Carla saves her. With renewed purpose, together the sisters begin to dismantle the conventions they are constantly facing. In late August 1939, Sally stands on the shore at Dover and takes her first step into the English Channel. She swims across the open and icy sea for 15 hours, waving to the Navy who are readying for war. A couple of days after Sally swims ashore at Calais, Poland is invaded.