This City Is Insidious
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上映時間 : 1時間 15分
演出 : Paul Bellini
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Short vignettes of assorted misfits, dreamers, and colourful characters around Toronto.
カナダのトロントにある地方TV局の社長が、奇妙なビデオテープを発見した。暴力と官能に溢れた映像に、彼とその恋人は次第に虜となっていく。やがてテープに秘められた恐るべき陥穽が明らかになる……。
キャサリン(ジュリアン・ムーア)は産婦人科医として成功し、大学教授の夫(リーアム・ニーソン)と息子(マックス・シエリオット)と平穏に暮らしていた。だが、ある日彼女は夫と教え子の浮気を疑い始め、何も手につかなくなる。彼女は偶然出会った美ぼうの娼婦(しょうふ)クロエ(アマンダ・セイフライド)に夫を誘惑してほしいともちかけ……。 『秘密のかけら』など独自の愛の世界を探求する鬼才、アトム・エゴヤン監督による官能サスペンス。何不自由ない生活を送りながら、夫の浮気疑惑によって自らを破滅へと追い込んでいく女性の悲しいさがを描き切る。孤独にさいなまれる主人公を体当たりで演じるのは、『キッズ・オールライト』のジュリアン・ムーア。魔性の娼婦(しょうふ)を、『ジュリエットからの手紙』のアマンダ・セイフライドが熱演する。2人の美女が織り成す危うい関係にゾクゾクする。
売れないバンドのベーシスト、スコット・ピルグリムはゲームやデートに明け暮れていたが、不思議な魅力を持つ女の子ラモーナに出会い、恋に落ちる。しかし彼女には邪悪な元カレが7人もいて、全員を倒さなければ付き合うことができないという。大好きな彼女のため、スコットは次々に現れる元カレたちと対決することになり……。<熱狂的な支持を集めるエドガー・ライト監督が、カナダの人気コミックを実写映画化したバトルアクション・ラブコメディー。不思議な魅力を持つ女性に恋したことで、彼女の邪悪な元カレたちと戦う羽目になる青年の奮闘を、日本のゲームや漫画のパロディー満載で描く。>
何も刺激のない日々に空虚なものを感じている、大学で歴史を教えているアダム・ベル。ある日、何げなく映画のDVDを観ていた彼は、劇中に出てくる俳優が自分自身とうり二つであることに驚く。彼がアンソニー・クレアという名だと知ったアダムは、さまざまな手を尽くして彼との面会を果たす。顔の作りのみならず、ひげの生やし方や胸にある傷痕までもが同じであることに戦慄する。
Tired of their mother's alcoholism and a string of her abusive boyfriends, two sisters plot to kill her.
マジメで頑張り屋の13歳の少女メイが、過保護の母親ミンからの期待と思春期の混乱の間で悩む姿を描く。興味や友達との関係、体に変化が起きる過渡期…そんな中、メイは興奮するとレッサーパンダに変身する体になってしまう!
When a struggling musician can't afford her rent, she signs up for a website where rich older men pay to date younger women. Her new money-making venture sends her down a dark rabbit hole that forces her to grow up fast, shaping her music, and how she sees the world.
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.
Alim is a gay man living in London to escape the domineering eye of his conservative Muslim mother, Nuru, back in Canada. Alim keeps his homosexuality secret from his mother, so when she comes for a surprise visit, he and his boyfriend, Giles, must put on a straight facade to hide the truth.
Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.
少年時代からいつも一緒にいる一卵性双生児の兄弟、エリオットとビヴァリー。容姿はうり二つだが、性格は兄エリオットが社交的で野心家、弟ビヴァリーが内気な努力家と正反対。兄弟はトロントで婦人科医の医院を営むが、ビヴァリーは診察した女優クレアの子宮が3つに分かれていたので驚く。やがてクレアはエリオットと肉体関係を持つが、クレアはエリオットに双子の弟がいることを知らない。こうして異様な三角関係が生まれる。
O・リード扮する精神科医のもとで、ある研究の実験台になっているS・エッガー。その研究とは、人間の憎悪という感情を、肉体的に具現化させるというものだった。エッガーの体にはやがて腫瘍ができ、その中からは奇怪なコビトが現れる。それこそ、腫瘍をある種の子宮として誕生した、彼女の憎悪の化身であった。
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.
Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending of their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.
Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny--the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.
Toronto, Canada. A few days before Christmas, Miles Cullen, a bored teller working at a bank branch located in a shopping mall, accidentally learns that the place is about to be robbed when he finds a disconcerting note on one of the counters.
Various experiences of childhood are seen in several sequences that take place in the small town of Thiers, France. Vignettes include a boy's awakening interest in girls, couples double-dating at the movies, brothers giving their friend a haircut, a boy dealing with an abusive home life, a baby and a cat sitting by an open window, a child telling a dirty joke, and a boy who develops a crush on his friend's mother.
Natasha takes place over the course of one summer. It is the story of Mark Berman, 16, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants living in the suburbs north of Toronto. When his uncle enters into an arranged marriage with woman from Moscow, the woman arrives in Canada with her fourteen year-old daughter, Natasha. Mark, a slacker, is conscripted by his parents to take responsibility for the strange girl. He learns that, in Moscow, she’d led a troubled and promiscuous life. A secret and forbidden romance begins between the two of them that has bizarre and tragic consequences for everyone involved.
Nick is a successful young man whose comfortable West Coast life couldn't be better. However, when his girlfriend falls under the influence of lecherous music producer Lenny Swackhammer, Nick impulsively decides to travel to Toronto to intervene. Nick's buddies Tyler and Dime opt to turn the quest into a cross-country road trip that's complete with wacky antics and encounters with beautiful women.