- When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialise in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hit…
- In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker's life he's an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he's in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he's a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiv…
- 法国导演情侣组合斯特劳布-于伊耶与1991年将索福克勒斯的希腊悲剧《安提戈涅》搬上银幕,文本上采用了德国浪漫主义诗人荷尔德林的著名翻译,版本上则依照布莱希特40年代的改编,拍摄地点是西西里岛上塞杰斯塔的一座古罗马剧院遗址,拍摄时阳光明媚。影片背后文本的多层厚度赋予了本片以极强的现时性:就在拍摄当年的夏天,美军对伊拉克发起了第…