丹尼尔（马修·麦克费登 Matthew Macfadyen 饰）是个久不得志的作家，暴走而且一直生活在名作家哥哥罗伯特（拉珀特·格雷夫斯 Rupert Graves 饰）的阴影之下。默默担负赡养父母义务的他这次主办父亲的葬礼，暴走却同样被哥哥喧宾夺主。本来严肃而又神圣的葬礼更是被堂姐的未婚夫，错食了迷幻药的可怜虫西蒙（艾伦·图代克 Alan Tudyk 饰），搅得一团糟。然而更大的危机在后面，一个神秘的侏儒男子（彼特·丁拉基 Peter Dinklage 饰）现身了，带着毁坏父亲所有声名的证据对丹尼尔进行敲诈。原来丹尼尔的父亲是同性恋，这个秘密眼看就要在他死后被揭开。在一团混乱中，葬礼断断续续的进行着。戏剧化的悲伤和幽默悄然向我们揭示葬礼的意义——带着挚爱的心情缅怀死者，也让生者将不如意的过去埋葬在葬礼上。
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王浩信
回复 :A revenge tale about a former college student who forges essays for cash, the client who becomes her lover, and their professor.
郑晟
回复 :The issue of War widow representation in Israeli cinema is one of the most complex for the local industry for it seems to be unique and with a very local and specific iconography.The war Widow is a difficult character to digest. Because this is an especially painful topic in Israel, its mode of representation is almost always problematic.Gila Almagor in Tofano's "siege" is one of the first characters of the "modern" war widows to appear on Israeli cinema screens.The human and social complexity of the status of widows was not represented adequately and personally until her complex and fine appearance in this film.It was mostly Preceded by cliches of heroic women who have sacrificed for the nation with characters to which it was very difficult to get attached, nor to their personal grief."Siege" was directed by an unknown Italian director of that period. Although Gilberto Tofano was brought as a professional director on the wings of inspiration made by the French New Wave of those years, he managed to turn out a very exciting work which has caught the Israeli warmth and sense of social siege which surrounds the Israeli widows, including the great expectations from them and the social stigmas.Tofano wrapped his leading lady with lots of warmth and gave a place of honor to Almagor's impressive presence in the film.This is without a doubt one of Almagor's best and most accurate performances. The restraint in her performance plus the shooting and expressive use of angles by Tofano and his soft European touch which was far off from the aggressive local product managed to produce a sense of documenting an authentic tragedy with a tangible personal touch that minimized the national dimension. The result stands the test of time proudly several decades after its creation.
