流沙2016

The film opens in a bleak police station where celebrated war correspondent Kate Rafter (Seagrove) faces questions from a psychiatrist, Dr Shaw (Kurylenko), as they work through the painful events of Rafter’s life. A horrific incident in war-torn Iraq and the death of her mother (Steed) have brought a haunted Rafter home to Herne Bay, a place she believed she had escaped forever. Her resentful sister (Friel) has not made her sister welcome and her forbearing husband Paul (Miles) fails to broker peace. Whilst packing up her mother’s belongings from her childhood home, Rafter comes to believe there is something strange and terrifying happening in the house next door.

When, at the beginning of Deus Irae, Father Javier stares at a crucifix, his expressions and his hands suggest that the nerves are consuming him. A flashback reveals that this priest devotes his life to visiting families that claim to have seen things that do not belong to this world and cleansing their homes from the demons that try to possess them. But, upon returning to those houses, he notices that the evidence is always destroyed. This way, he discovers that a clan is after him, and must decide whether to hide from them or join them. In times when horror cinema tends to fall into the hands of directors that seek to build narratives that are introspective and close to reality, Pedro Cristiani goes back to old-school horror, where gore and the physical experience are above any other kind of feeling. A cinema that places the camera in front of the faces of the bloodiest demons and, instead of giving logic to them, chooses to face them whatever the cost. 源自：https://www.mardelplatafilmfest.com/38/en/pelicula/deus-irae

 1898年6月11日，光绪皇帝向全国颁布了"明定国是"诏书，中国近代史上轰轰烈烈的戊戌变法运动开始了。为了网罗天下英才，军机处两次拍电报催促谭嗣同火速进京。谭嗣同辞别了妻子李闰，踏上征途。途中，黄河两岸饿殍满地，哀鸿遍野的景象深深震动了谭嗣同，他更坚信只有变法才能救中国。与此同时，在颐和园的慈禧太后及心腹老臣们不动声色地把辅佐皇上变法、为皇上保荐人才的军机大臣翁同和撤了职，遣送回乡。提升荣禄为直隶总督兼北洋大臣，把持兵权，统摄北洋三军，给刚刚开始的变法维新一个警告和打击。谭嗣同到京后，马上受到光绪皇帝的召见。他横溢的才思和无畏的胆识备受皇上赞赏。光绪皇帝激动地授予他四品章京衔，命他在军机处供职，希望他成为中兴之臣。革新志士康有为、杨深秀、林旭、刘光第等在得月楼设宴为谭嗣同洗尘。他们烛下长谈，共谋维新大业。兵部侍郎袁世凯也前来拜访谭嗣同，并献五百两银子，对维新大业略表微衷。礼部尚书怀塔布扣押了主事王照奏请皇上游历东西各国的折子，革新志士抓住了这件事，奏请皇上，撤了礼部六堂官怀塔布、许应骙等。光绪皇帝依靠谭嗣同、康有为变法图强的决心，深深地震惊了以太后为首的封建专制势力。此时，谭嗣同、康有为等准备乘胜追击，奏请皇上开设懋勤殿，驾空昏庸老臣，实行朝钢独断。太后和荣禄也频频来往，密室共议。他们一面调动军队做好防范，一面筹划9月天津阅兵，准备到时废掉皇上。新旧两党的斗争达到白热化。在这关键时刻，光绪皇帝遭到太后的软禁，相知相爱的珍妃亦被打入冷宫。康有为、谭嗣同等了5天不见君面，只得到一道光绪设法传出来的要他们设法相救的特谕。他们当时都惊愕不已，束手无策。谭嗣同突然想到兵部侍郎袁世凯，决定孤注一掷，夜访法华寺，求助于袁世凯。看了皇上亲笔手谕，袁世凯万分震惊。他慷慨陈词发誓要效犬马之劳。但在打发下了谭嗣同后，袁世凯权衡利弊，最后，决定投靠太后，出卖了谭嗣同和维新大业。慈禧太后得到密报，连夜返回紫禁城，发动了震惊中外的戊戌政变，再度训政。除康有为、梁启超逃往国外外，革新志士纷纷被捕。谭嗣同谢绝了梁启超、日本友人及好友大刀王五的诚恳相救，决心以一死来惊醒黎民百姓。谭嗣同的爱妻突然来到了北京，没想到相聚竟是死别。残烛前，夫妻凄然把酒相对。谭嗣同等6位维新派志士被押往菜市口刑场。谭嗣同为无力回天而感叹，为死得其所而慰藉。他们把满腔热血喷洒在祖国的大地上。

这部剧本围绕着埃拉展开，她是一位 19 岁的坐轮椅的女性，完全依赖这个系统。当她离开家去求学时，她的求助申请被拒绝了，她不得不搬进一家机构，而不是她一直梦想拥有的自己的公寓。与此同时，她遇到了自己的初恋。

 民国初年，国会议员卢子陵在家遇害，一条钻石项链被盗。监察厅聘用的多名侦探先后失踪。段厅长不得已从死牢保出侦探“铁蜘蛛”，又请来“神猫”冷云飞协助。冷云飞在“铁蜘蛛”的暗中指示下行动，并结识了袁芳，而袁芳姑父文中汉其实使龙虎堂堂主。原来，被盗的钻石上刻有反袁革命军军校级以上军官的名单，急于得到名单的袁世凯派人杀了文中汉，但钻石最后为“铁蜘蛛”也就是袁芳所得。袁芳假死逃脱，冷云飞南下云南与之相会。