With his carefree lifestyle on the line, a wealthy charmer poses as a ranch hand to get a hardworking farmer to sell her family's land before Christmas.
公元117年,罗马帝国在不断扩狂。但在不列颠北部,扩张却遭到了当地野蛮人——皮克特人的阻拦。百夫长昆图斯(迈克尔·法斯宾德 Michael Fassbender 饰)因在皮克特人袭击中幸存而被任命带领罗马军团中的常胜军团——第九军团前去歼灭皮克特人。但第九军团还是遭到了皮克特人的伏击,军团统帅维流士将军(多米尼克·威斯特 Dominic West 饰)被俘。昆图斯与敌人殊死反抗,带着部分人逃出。他们不但要面对皮克特人的追捕,更希望可以救出将军。他们并不知道,全家被罗马人杀害,自己也被割了舌头的艾泰恩(欧嘉·柯瑞兰寇 Olga Kurylenko 饰)正充满了怒火在对他们展开捕杀。一场逃离罗马边境的危险反抗战正在打响……
入围塔林电影节影评人之选竞赛。
Masterfully orchestrated – with only a small budget, the setting basically consisting of a table, two chairs, two persons talking, one mysterious manuscript and some little food in-between – this two-men drama reminds me of Robert Bresson’s famous words about filmmaking: “Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theatre (actors, direction, etc.) and use the camera in order to reproduce, and those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create. (Robert Bresson. “Notes on the Cinematograph”, New York Review of Books, 2016)