A wickedly dark comedy follows dominatrix, Rebecca (Margaret Qualley), and her wealthy client, Hal (Christopher Abbott),as they engage in a high stakes role playing game for power and control. In the wake of inheriting his father’s hotel chain, Hal attempts to end his long and secret relationship with Rebecca. A battle of wills ensues over the course of one incredibly fraught night, with both Rebecca and Hal struggling to keep the upper hand as the power dynamics swing wildly back and forth.
童年时代的悲惨遭遇让迈克尔(瑞安·雷诺兹 Ryan Reynolds 饰)和父亲查尔斯(威廉·达福 Willem Dafoe 饰)之间有着深深的隔阂,如今已经是一位知名小说家的迈克尔刚刚完成了一本名叫《花园里的萤火虫》的小说,这本小说记载了他童年的全部伤痛。 母亲丽莎(朱莉娅·罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰)终于完成大学的喜讯让迈克尔回到了家乡,这里有他所熟悉的一切,亦有让他痛苦不已的往昔。不幸的是,当迈克尔踏进家门之时,等待着他的却是母亲在车祸中不幸丧生的噩耗,看着悲痛的父亲,迈克尔开始重新思考起亲情的意义。对于迈克尔的新书,父亲暴跳如雷,他将它看作是儿子对于自己的控诉,矛盾重新在父子两人之间爆发开来。
生活在沙特阿拉伯首都利雅得郊区的十岁小女孩瓦嘉达(瓦德·穆罕默德 Waad Mohammed 饰),性格乐观开朗,活力四射。虽然她生活的环境传统保守,但小瓦嘉达不仅穿被老师明令禁止的牛仔裤板鞋,还热衷听摇滚乐。一日,瓦嘉达和邻家男孩阿布杜拉(Abdullrahman Al Gohani 饰)打了一架后,刚巧看见一辆崭新的绿色自行车正在售卖。从此,瓦嘉达满脑子都是这两漂亮洋气的自行车,梦想有一天能买下它跟阿布杜拉来一场比赛。然而瓦嘉达的妈妈(黎姆·阿杜拉 Reem Abdullah 饰)却极力反对这件事。因为根据瓦哈比派的教义,女性是不允许骑自行车的,特别是未婚少女。倔强的瓦嘉达只得偷偷的想办法自己筹钱。她在学校努力贩卖自制的小商品,又报名参加了自己一无所知的可兰经有奖背诵比赛。然而社会约束和宗教束缚却始终阻碍着瓦嘉达,难道她就只能屈服于现实么?
Salomé (1923), a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name. The play itself is a loose retelling of the biblical story of King Herod and his execution of John the Baptist (here, as in Wilde's play, called Jokaanan) at the request of his stepdaughter, Salomé, whom he lusts after. Salomé is often called one of the first art films to be made in the U.S.[citation needed] The highly stylized costumes, exaggerated acting (even for the period), minimal sets, and absence of all but the most necessary props make for a screen image much more focused on atmosphere and on conveying a sense of the characters' individual heightened desires than on conventional plot development. Despite the film being only a little over an hour in length and having no real action to speak of, it cost over $350,000 to make. All the sets were constructed indoors to be able to have complete control over the lighting. The film was shot completely in black and white, matching the illustrations done by Aubrey Beardsley in the printed edition of Wilde's play. The costumes, designed by Natacha Rambova, used material only from Maison Lewis of Paris, such as the real silver lamé loincloths worn by the guards. No major studio would be associated with the film, and it was years after its completion before it was released, by a minor independent distributor. It was a complete failure at the time and marked the end of Nazimova's producing career. A longstanding rumor, which seems to have started while the film was still in production, suggests that its cast is comprised entirely of gay and bisexual actors in an homage to Oscar Wilde, as per star and producer Nazimova's demand. It is, of course, impossible to say, but one of the extras in Salomé reported that a number of the cast members—both featured and extras—were indeed gay, but not an unusual percentage of them, and certainly not all of them. What can be said is that Nazimova herself was a lesbian, the two guard characters (who, next to Salomé, have the most screen time) are at least played very stereotypically gay, and several of the female courtiers are men in drag. Salomé was screened in 1989 at the New York International Festival of Lesbian and Gay films and in 1990 at the New York Gay Experimental Film Festival. In 2000, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film culturally significant and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.