Yuki, nine years old, learns that her parents are separating. Her father is French, and her mother is Japanese. She is going to have to follow her mother to Japan, leaving everything behind in Paris, starting with her best friend Nina. Together, Yuki and Nina devise schemes in order to get her parents back together. Running away seems like the only solution in the end - the forest will be their new destination. "A 'coup de cœur'. The demonstration that the most beautiful things could also be the most simple." Serge Kaganski, Les Inrockuptibles 2009 Cannes International Film Festival – Directors' Fortnight
青年夫妇蒂姆·格里森(蒂姆·洛克 Tim Rock 饰)和怀有身孕的妻子艾莉(凯琳·科尔曼 Kelen Coleman 饰)驱车前往异地看望祖父,他们的车子在穿越炎热荒凉的加州沙漠时抛锚。沿着仅有的线杆和电话线,夫妇二人来到一片玉米地。这里居住着一对不太大调的夫妇,男主 人科尔苍老阴郁,心中仿佛藏着无限的秘密;女主人海伦(Barbara Nedeljakova 饰)性感漂亮,动人的容貌下似乎散发着死亡的气息。由于是星期天,救援车辆无法迅速到达,格林森夫妇只得暂住于科尔的家中。夜晚,艾莉偶然在附近的仓库中发现被锁其中的少年,她意识到科尔可能正在实施某种罪行。她决定解救孩子,却不知自己早已成为死神的猎物……
Seventeen-year-old Carlos doesn't fit in anywhere, not in his family nor with the friends he has chosen in school. But everything changes when he is invited to a mythical nightclub where he discovers the underground nightlife scene: punk, sexual liberty and drugs.
In the bleak filmscape of glasnost, The Needle stood out as a black sheep of a movie. The most playful and offbeat of the Soviet films of the period, it contrasted sharply to the mainstream, which was overwhelmed with revisionism of the Stalinist past and nihilistic social criticism. Made in 1988 by a young Kazakh director, Rashid Nugmanov, fresh out of VGIK (the national film school), The Needle was a pioneering effort in several ways. Having come from a remote, stagnant republic of Kazakhstan, the picture set off a movement that has come to be known as the "Kazakh New Wave." Represented by such works as Alexander Baranov's and Bakhyt Kilibayev's The Three (1988) and Woman of the Day (1990); Kilibayev's The Tick (1990); Baranov's He and She (1990); Abai Karpykov's Little Fish in Love (1989); and Serik Aprymov's The Last Stop (1989), the Kazakh New Wave was for the agonizing Soviet film of the late 1980s what the French New Wave was for the dusty French film of the late 1950s. The Needle was the movement's a bout de souffle. The film also became a model for the Russian version of postmodernism—uninhibited and uninformed, compensating for the lack of culture, skill, and resources with mischief and wit. A young man named Moro (played by Viktor Tsoi, the late rock 'n' roll legend from the St. Petersburg band "Kino") returns to his Asiatic hometown only to find his exgirlfriend, Dina (Marina Smirnova), becoming a drug addict and himself becoming involved in the bizarre life of the city's underworld. In an attempt to save Dina, Moro takes her away to the Aral Sea, turned into a barren desert by the time they arrive. There Dina seems cured, but back in town everything starts anew. Almost desperate, Moro decides to fight the drug dealers, led by a hospital doctor (played by another rock 'n' roll star, eccentric leader of the "Sound of Mu" band and the future star of Taxi Blues, Pyotr Mamonov), when one of them stabs him in a deserted park.