幻影

多年以后，蘇珊和她的兩個孩子意外地出現(xiàn)在她姐姐珍妮的家中。起初看起來像是蘇珊在試探性地試圖重新與姐姐建立關(guān)系。但隨著晨光的出現(xiàn)，這種幻覺破滅了：蘇珊消失了……內(nèi)森·安布羅西奧尼的這部親密電影，描繪了一位被迫成為母親的女人，而她對自己的孩子幾乎一無所知。他那極簡主義的敘事方式，卻充滿了深刻的共情，讓觀眾得以觀察這個新生家庭逐漸凝聚的緩慢過程，以及他們內(nèi)心的恐懼與猶豫，還有那毫無效率的國家機器的荒謬之處。這是一部法國電影，它反映了因必要性而產(chǎn)生的共同生活本質(zhì)的脆弱性，以及當它源于愛時，它會變得多么強大。

　　As bacteriologist Lena (38) drives past a burning car, she hears a scream of a dying woman. Lena does not tell her boyfriend how much the incident distresses her, just as she does not talk about the stillbirth she recently had. Instead, she throws herself into her work, intrudes into the life of the deceased, begins an affair with the widower and gradually takes on the role of mother to their son. Her persistent insomnia causes her to lose control between dreams and reality. Finally she accepts the help of a whisperer and then finds her own way to cope with her loss

　　The nightmare was about a demonic possession. A long time ago, there was an evil in a small town and it was jealous of the girl and would never let her go, since the devil loved the girl. One night, the evil raped the girl and she became pregnant. After months the girl could not hide her baby, her father figured her secret out and clapped the girl in irons and locked her room door. But the evil put the gun to her father' temple and saved the girl. The father had a stroke and had been sleeping on the bed for three months and died. Time went on and the girl brought a child into the world. Naturally, people who were living in the village heard the story and they did not want to see neither the girl nor the baby since when the baby was born, plants dried in the field, fishes lost in the lake and people had prayed to the god for rain, but nothing changed in the village. People got so angry, dug a hole in front of the fountain, put her into the hole and threw stones at her face. The girl died soon after. The evil went off the deep end, took a revenge of the village and killed everyone except two sisters because the evil wanted them to take care of its baby...

　　青春少女瑪麗（Cécile De France 飾）和愛莉西婭（Ma?wenn Le Besco 飾）是同在法國巴黎一所大學(xué)就讀的好朋友。某個周末，兩人驅(qū)車前往愛莉西婭家位于鄉(xiāng)下的農(nóng)場度假。適值深夜，萬籟俱寂，瑪麗寂寞難耐正在自我宣泄之時，一個不速之客突然闖入。他殘忍殺害了愛莉西婭的父母和年幼的弟弟，并將其擄去。為了營救好友，瑪麗悄悄鉆進兇手的卡車。途經(jīng)一個加油站，她換上同樣慘遭殺害的店員的車繼續(xù)跟蹤，卻被狡猾的兇手發(fā)現(xiàn)行跡。一場近乎迷幻的貓鼠殺戮游戲旋即進入高潮……　　本片榮獲2003年Sitges – Catalonian國際電影節(jié)最佳女主角（Cécile De France）、最佳導(dǎo)演、最佳化裝和歐洲奇幻電影大獎銀獎。