Lynn and Lucy are life-long best friends, their relationship as intense as any romance. Neither has ventured far from where they grew up. Lynn, who married her first boyfriend and whose daughter is fast growing up, is delighted when the charismatic, volatile Lucy has her first baby boy. Lucy, however does not react to being a mother as Lynn expects. Soon, they find their friendship is tested in extreme circumstances.
本片改編自羅馬尼亞學(xué)家伊利亞德的同名說。1938年,年逾七十的哲學(xué)教授多米克?馬泰(蒂姆?羅 Tim Roth 飾)本打算自殺,卻閃電突然擊中。嚴(yán)重傷的多米尼克得到了馬尼亞醫(yī)生斯坦庫里庫教授(布魯諾?崗 Bruno Ganz 飾)的救治,痊愈后,多米尼克竟發(fā)現(xiàn)己返老還童,并分裂另外人格。不僅如此多米尼克還具有夢中習(xí)、透視、意念移物特異功能。為了躲避粹醫(yī)生魯?shù)婪颍ò驳??漢尼克André Hennicke 飾)的追蹤,多米尼克名輾轉(zhuǎn)于瑞士、羅馬亞、馬耳他、印度等,直到二戰(zhàn)結(jié)束。六年代,某次登山時多尼克遇見一名叫做維尼卡的女子(亞歷山拉?瑪利亞?拉拉 Alexandra Maria Lara 飾),與他年輕時的婚妻勞拉一模一樣。拉尼卡及朋友山中遇,被多米尼克救治后擁有了夢中追溯語言始的能力,卻因此加衰老。多米尼克一方希望維拉尼卡助他完語言及時間起源的著,一方面又不愿看到人因此早夭,矛盾中苦不已…… 本片獲獨(dú)立精神獎最佳攝影提?