保罗·范霍文(《她》《黑皮书》)导演新片《圣母玛利亚》(Blessed Virgin)预计八月在意大利开拍,聚焦现代西方最早记录在案的女同性恋故事。设定在17世纪的意大利,修女Bernadetta Carlini饱受宗教和情色方面的困扰,她得到了另一位修女Bartolomea的帮助,两人在日常交往中逐渐心生爱恋,发展了一段浪漫爱情故事。维吉妮·艾菲拉(《她》《维多利亚》)饰演Bernadetta Carlini,Bartolomea的扮演者还未确定,范霍文的老搭档Gerard Soeteman(《黑皮书》《第四人》)编写剧本,基于Judith C. Brown所著小说《Immodest Acts The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy》。
Synopsis
In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato ponders: what would happen if one of the prisoners managed to free themselves from their chains and escape from the cave? What if that prisoner were Jay, a little 7-year-old boy?
Director’s statement
What lies behind the daily movement of a city? Last winter, we met in Paris and began discussing the Allegory of the Cave, as told in Plato’s Republic. The myth imagines humanity living in chains, facing the back of a cave, and watching shadows move on the walls, thinking it is reality. We both work with images, which certainly can be illusions, but can also become instruments of struggle and liberation of thought. So, from this discussion, we decided to create a short film. We had a few fixed ideas—the cave, the dance, the city bustling around us—and one question: what would happen if we all managed to turn together towards the exit of the cave? Perhaps it is not enough to assert that images are illusions as long as the chains that bind us are real.