Eva
Eve and Adam meet in Eden. It soon becomes apparent that they don’t find each other particularly attractive. But do they have a choice? Writing helps. They each start keeping a diary about this first encounter between two human beings — from very different perspectives, as one might imagine. And as they get on each other’s nerves and recount terrible things about each other, they discover an unexpected new emotion: love.
Romania's winning streak at festivals continues, but the most unusual and ambiguous one still lurks in mysterious darkness. The undeservedly underrated Gabriel de Achim challenged the widely renowned Cristi Puiu (“The Death of Mr. Lazarescu”) to make a film using all the things, which the established Romanian master most detests in cinema. He constructed a non-linear story with wickedly tangled flash backs and flash forwards and set the same actors to perform different and multi-faceted roles.
Mother
巨大企業であるウェクセル・ホール社の秘密の研究施設で、女性生物学者のアマンダは生物の老化を抑制する謎の成分が含まれた『不死の蘭』を研究するため、2匹の巨大なアナコンダを飼育し実験を続けていた。 実験は予想以上の成果を生み、アナコンダ達は突然変異によって18mもの巨体へと成長していたが、査察に訪れたウェクセル・ホール社会長のマードックの些細なミスが原因で、『クイーン』と呼ばれる雌のアナコンダと、もう1匹の雄のアナコンダが実験用のケージから逃走、数人のスタッフを殺害した後、森に逃げ出してしまう。 アマンダと施設責任者のピンカスは2匹のアナコンダを捕獲するために、腕利きのハンターであるハーマットらと共に追跡を開始するが…
Tatiana / Adalbert
It's not just any day at the factory for our shady but somehow admirable hero Iulica (Gabriel Spahiu), Health and Safety Chief, but the morning after the glorious victory of underdogs Steaua Bucharest in the European Champions Cup over the mighty Barcelona - the only Romanian team ever to win it. Everyone, or at least the men, really wants to be celebrating this, but in fact it's Romanian Communist Party Day which is taking centre stage in the works canteen.
Zenia
Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring while serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Risking her own life to save the lives of others, she uncovers an international conspiracy that is determined to stop her, no matter the cost.
Wendy
前作でウェクセル・ホール社の秘密研究施設から逃げ出した二匹の蛇は、唯一人生き残った女性科学者アマンダの手によって死んだ。だが、その腹の中に既に芽生えていた新たな生命を、密かに持ち出していた研究者がいた。やがて、蛇の子供たちは予想をはるかに上回るスピードで成長し、研究者を襲い脱走してしまう。 この事態に再びアマンダは立ち上がるが、時を同じくしてアナコンダ誕生のきっかけとなった『不死の蘭』から抽出した薬で不老不死の身体を得ようと企む ウェクセル・ホール社会長マードックも殺し屋を雇ってアマンダを追跡していた…
Victorine Taillefer
A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victorine Taillefer, a young lady her rich father refuses to recognize; Horace Bianchon, a medical student; Monsieur Vautrin, a mysterious and disconcerting man; Goriot, a rich merchant who spent all his fortune for his daughters, Delphine and Anastasie, to make a rich marriage. Eugène becomes friends with Goriot but while the former, thanks to his cousin Madame de Beauséant, is introduced in high society, Goriot, both exploited and scoffed at by his daughters, continues his descent into hell.
Widow
Death and spiritual torment stalk three American students visiting the Carpathian mountain homeland of Vlad Tepes.
Nurse
Early in his crime-solving career, Sherlock Holmes attempts to prevent Moriarty from cornering the heroin market.
Sorina
"Occident" is a bitter comedy about the people who want to emigrate from Romania, and about those who stay behind. The movie has a rich, interesting structure: there are three different stories - a weeklong in the film - that cross, interconnect and happen in the same period. The characters influence each others lives, sometimes even without knowing. Main characters from one story become secondary characters in another story. At the same time, scenes from the first part of the movie bring unexpected facts when seen the second or the third time. The stories do not have just one ending: the first story ends in each of the third parts in a different point, suggesting radically different solutions for the characters. The way in which the director fits time and links events together often produces thematically unexpected results.
