Toa Fraser — Director (5)

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Giselle (2013)
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Toa Fraser actor: 吉莲·墨菲
other title: 吉赛尔 / Giselle: The Movie
Giselle is a quintessential artefact of 19th-century European Romanticism, a brooding two-act drama in which eroticism and death each claims its act. Giselle, a delicate village beauty, loves to dance. A prince, disguised as a commoner, is entranced and woos her away from her devoted suitor. They fall in love, but before he has the chance to disentangle himself from an inconvenient betrothal his perfidy is revealed. The second act belongs to the Wilis, a corps de ballet of wraiths, the spirits of women jilted at the altar, who take revenge on feckless men by forcing them to dance until they die. Any habitué of the ostensibly ‘live’-feed stage productions that crowd cinema screens will quickly recognise that the transposition here is exceptionally powerful. The filmmakers could hardly have had a more cleanly enunciated production to work with. Ethan Stiefel and Johan Kobborg’s staging and choreography pare back the traditional elaborations to restore psychological directness to the relationships. These are perfectly expressed by a peerless set of dancers, principally Gillian Murphy as Giselle and Qi Huan as Albrecht.

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The Dead Lands (2014)
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托亚·弗莱瑟 actor: 詹姆斯·罗尔斯顿 / 丽纳·欧文 …
other title: 死地勇士 / 死亡之地 …
After his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery, Hongi, a Maori chieftain's teenage son, must avenge his father's murder in order to bring peace and honor to the souls of his loved ones. Vastly outnumbered by a band of villains, Hongi's only hope is to pass through the feared and forbidden Dead Lands and forge an uneasy alliance with the mysterious Warrior, a ruthless fighter who has ruled the area for years.

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外婆的盛宴 (2006)
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other title: No. 2 / Naming Number Two
婆婆做了一个梦,梦里是美好的旧日时光,大家在一起唱歌聚餐。管他是否回光返照,她决定也要办一场热闹的盛宴,而且所有孙子孙女都得出席,因为她将正式宣布继承人选。终於,亲友团纷纷报到,但宴会还没开始,就已经波折不断……

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My Talks with Dean Spanley (2008)
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other title: 迪恩·斯潘雷 / Dean Spanley
电影发生在爱德华时代的英国。老费斯克(Peter O'Toole)是个脾气古怪的老头,他的小儿子在战争中去世了,妻子由于哀痛也在不久去世,风烛残年的Fisk老人对他的大儿子(Jeremy Northam)似乎没感情没心肝,然而当他们在一个看似平常的星期四去听了一个印度人关于灵魂转世的讲演,并且遇到了Dean Spanley之后,他们经历了一趟奇异的旅程,并最终打开了这位老人的心结。