Last at the Festival with 2017’s rural noir Dark River, a selection in the Platform programme, writer-director Clio Barnard returns to the Bradford, West Yorkshire setting of her earlier films for this tumultuous, fiercely affecting midlife love story.
A bundle of good humour and nervous energy, Ali (Adeel Akhtar) is a British Pakistani working-class landlord who forges close bonds with his tenants. One day, while picking up one of his tenants’ children from school, he offers a lift to Ava (Claire Rushbrook), an Irish-born teacher and single mother of five. They bond almost instantly through their love of music, though Ali favours the high energy of Buzzcocks and hip-hop while Ava takes refuge in the quieter comforts of Bob Dylan and Karen Dalton. Despite their divergent backgrounds, differences in their stages of life, and the colour of their skin, despite the fact of Ali’s failing marriage and Ava’s fraught relationship with her adult and adolescent children, each finds themself irresistibly drawn to the other. But can their mutual desire transcend a barrage of personal obstacles?
Inspired by people Barnard encountered while making her acclaimed features The Arbor and The Selfish Giant, Ali & Ava is a film that feels profoundly rooted in lived experience, blending a tender emotional complexity with an at times bracing depiction of trauma and grief. Akhtar and Rushbrook’s finely hued performances speak to the setting’s cultural diversity and tribal loyalties while yielding a vulnerability that’s alternately heart-wrenching and joyous. Their story serves as a reminder that it is sometimes the least likely connections that are the ones most worth pursuing.
片名：《阿里与艾娃》
导演：克里欧·巴纳德
演员：阿迪勒·阿赫塔尔,克莱尔·拉什布鲁克,梅西·夏克敦,肖恩·托马斯,Thomas Skelly,Isaac Gale,Travis Liversidge,Elliott Liversidge,埃洛拉·托尔基亚,Vinny Dhillon,Runa Begum,Ryan Hall,Barnabás Bodor,Ariana Bodorová,Fatima Bodorová,Sarlota Nagyov
如何评价《阿里与艾娃》
首先声明，我是真的挺喜欢这部《阿里与艾娃》小片的，n刷过后我也看了一些导演和演员的相关采访，对这个电影也有了一些更深的感受和想说的话。这其实是于适自己在路演的时候对电影的形容，我觉得还挺准确的：他说这部电影就像一瓶冰镇过的橘子姜味汽水，一开始喝下去凉爽愉悦，但最后回味起来又会有点辛辣苦涩，我现在可以说就处在这个回味的阶段。
演技的好坏直接决定了剧中人物能否和观众产生共鸣。一个好的演技能够将剧本里的人物活灵活现地展现在人们的面前，一个好的剧本如果没有一个好演技的人来塑造里面的人物形象，和一个烂片其实也相差无几了；同时，一个烂剧本，但是有一个好演技，可以将里面的人物塑造得淋漓尽致，即使剧本再烂，可能也坏不到哪里去。
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