1947. On a beach in Normandy, Madeleine, a waitress and young mother, meets Fran?ois, a wealthy, and cultivated student. They hit it off immediately, as though it were fate. But as their destinies intertwine, it’s obvious what Madeline wants to leave behind, while the world that Francois is running from is only slowly revealed.
In a desperate bid to secure a future for her child, an undocumented immigrant mother takes a caretaker job. Unbeknownst to her, the elderly man conceals a horrifying truth.
A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for his role in the rape and murder of the marshal's Native American wife.
Claude is a self-made hitman who gets picked up by the big boys to handle a troublesome witness. But the job turns out to be a little more difficult than he expects...
比利时导演Phillippe Van Leeuw的第二部作品,出生于1950年代的他并不是一位年轻的电影工作者,此前担任了相当长一段时间摄影师的工作,与杜蒙等人合作密切。影片在2017年柏林电影节全景单元展映,并获得该单元的观众选择大奖。影片的主题仍旧与黎巴嫩硝烟四起的战争有关,但导演并没有刻画交战双方的正面冲突,而是另辟蹊径,在密闭空间中观察时局的残酷。整个故事在贝鲁特一处居民区中展开,摄影机始终没有离开过女主角Oum Yazan的公寓,在这里躲避战争的一大家子人继续着他们胆战心惊的日常生活,而他们做出的每一个决定,都可能关乎生死。《囚禁》是一部很有想法的作品,节奏、编剧、摄影、表演都相当出色,隐忍、克制、有力。