The film tells the story of three people for a year: a son (Magimel) diagnosed with cancer, a mother (Deneuve) suffering from helplessness and a doctor (Cécile de France) to do her job: One year and four seasons for these three characters to deal with the disease, to tame it, and to understand what it means to die while alive.
与Stefan Uher和Elo Havatta一样,Eduard Grecner也是60年代斯洛伐克新浪潮电影的缔造者之一。他的三部影片《一周七天》(1964)《尼绒月亮》(1965)和这部《徳拉克的回归》都是斯洛伐克新浪潮电影的代表作。这部叙事方法独特带有明显意识流风格的黑白影片甚至间接影响到了后来法国导演格里耶在捷克拍摄的两部影片《说谎的人》和《Eden and After》。
A special place in the development of feature films is reserved for Eduard Grecner, the creator of just one good film, Dragon Returns (Drak sa vracia, 1967), titled after the nickname of the lead character. After his initial work with Uher, Grecner made his mark as a proponent of the so-called "intellectual" film, the antithesis of the sociologically, or rather, socially critical film. Grecner's great role model was Alan Resnais, a young French filmmaker who sought to introduce Slovakia to the idea of film as a labyrinth in which meanings are created not by stories, but by complex configurations of dialogue, shots, and various layers of time, thus differentiating film from both literature and theater. In Dragon Returns―the story of a solitary hero who is needed by villagers living far in the mountains, but who is rejected by them at the same time because of his detachment―Grecner brought the tradition of lyricized prose to life through a whole series of formal aesthetic techniques. Alain Robbe-Grillet immediately developed this idea in the film shot in Bratislava The Man Who Lies (Slovak: Muz, ktory luze; French title: L'homme qui ment; 1968), and perfected it in Eden and After (Eden a potom, 1970).
美国中情局干员杰克·雷恩(哈里森·福特 Harrison Ford 饰)再次卷入一场错综复杂的贩毒战争之中。因前任陆军上将罹患癌症,雷恩被任命为CIA副局长一职,奉命调查美国总统友人遭毒贩谋杀事件。总统好友及其家人在睡梦中惨遭贩毒集团毒害,为查明真相,雷恩开始追查。然而,雷恩发现其好友居然与哥伦比亚贩毒团有染,不仅如此,总统也派出了一支秘密突击小组对付毒贩集团,并已前往消灭贩毒集团。不明真相的雷恩,不仅置身于利益纷争的国际政治阴谋之中,更陷入敌友难辨的两难之境。事态演变得愈发扑朔迷离,被蒙在鼓里的雷恩势要以身试险,一探究竟。
雷恩·威尔森与艾伦·佩姬曾在《朱诺》中有过合作。
衰男法兰克(雷恩·威尔森 Rainn Wilson 饰)的美丽妻子莎拉(丽芙·泰勒 Liv Tyler 饰)和一个名叫雅克(凯文·贝肯 Kevin Bacon 饰)的毒贩搞在了一起,并因此离开了法兰克。这让弗莱克很是崩溃,于是他拉上在当地漫画店里打工的患有精神病的可爱女孩莉比(艾伦·佩吉 Ellen Page 饰)协助他一起,化身一对蒙面英雄组合,誓要打垮毒贩雅克。但莉比与法兰克到底是一起行侠仗义、犀利复仇,只是为了瞎搅和?一切似乎渐渐失控……
杰姬(凯特·迪基 Kate Dickie 饰)的工作是守候在“城市之眼”系统的操控室内,通过遍布城市的摄像头静静守护夜色中的人们,这份静默的工作就像杰姬此时的生活:在失去丈夫以后,她和冷漠的情人保持着若有如无的关系,同事之间最低限度的交流,还有疏远的双亲,这一切映衬她封冻的情感。某夜,一个出现在摄像头中的身影打破了杰姬的宁静心绪,杰姬开始整日观察这个叫做克莱德·亨德森(托尼·库兰 Tony Curran 饰)的男人,她追踪克莱德与周围人的动向,甚至来到克莱德居住的“红色之路”——一幢住着不少刑满释放人员的公寓,并混入其家中。克莱德为什么引起杰姬的注意?他们之间曾经发生过什么?