对于女孩瑞秋(雷文·西蒙尼 Raven Symone 饰)来说,开始大学生活等同于打开了新世界的大门,在这扇门背后的,是自由不羁的生活和真正独立自主的标志。在进入大学之前,瑞秋决定来一个“大学之旅”,在还没有决定进入哪所大学之前,她想要通过双眼,亲自见证一下不同大学中的迥异生活。
不幸的是,身为父亲的詹姆斯(马丁·劳伦斯 Martin Lawrence 饰)显然觉得自己的女儿还是一个需要他来关心和照顾的小女孩,爱女心切的他斩钉截铁的决定要陪伴女儿完成这一趟特殊的旅程。本应该轻松快乐的旅途由于詹姆斯的存在而变成了一场噩梦,瑞秋和詹姆斯之间的父女之情也受到了前所未有的考验。
During a hot summer in Quebec’s countryside, a recently settled couple struggles. Marie (35), a sound artist in lack of inspiration doubts her relationship with her partner. The arrival of Noée (25), a young French traveler who mourns her father, will destabilise the status quo and trouble their neighbour Yan (30), a solitary farmer, by awakening new desires. In Montreal, Eva (15), a teenage Filipina who recently moved to Canada, tries to find new roots in the city. Since her arrival, she suffers from insomnia, often interrupted by strange dreams of her hometown in the Philippines. Jeanne (25) is having trouble finishing her thesis on the work of Marie, the artist in the countryside. As Eva tries to anchor herself, Jeanne plans to leave everything. The Splendour of Life is a sensual film that explores how we relate to each other in a changing world that transcends us - an invitation to live to the fullest.
In this episodic dramatic comedy Francella plays a whopping 16 different characters which “will confront conflicts reflecting the invisible pressure under which we live in a modern-day megalopolis,” said Cohn and Duprat. “The film presents a panorama of our ‘national being’ in a scathing and sarcastic but at the same time reflexive tone. Argentina is a country of immigrants, whose character is a sum of different origins and nationalities: Millions of Europeans came and mixed with Native Argentinians, creating a powerful and singular idiosyncrasy,” they added.
river’s Ed centers on a group of teens who steal their school’s driver’s ed car to go on a road trip to help a high school senior track down his college-freshman girlfriend and win her back.