极乐2026

本作讲述了个性内向的普通女高中生“爱”，一边背负着家庭问题，一边在校园中默默度日。某日，从海外归来的转学生“优”来到班级，却难以适应日本学校的集体行动。爱对优产生兴趣，但始终难以表达自己，而优也对爱的不坦率感到烦躁。
　　就在某天，操场上有学生突然四肢着地不再动弹，任凭老师与同学劝说也毫无反应。随后，越来越多的学生在他身边模仿起相同动作。诡异的是，学校却鼓励大家加入这个“人类金字塔”，并称其为“好事”。
　　最终，这些重叠在一起的学生们都露出安详的表情，更多的学生逐一加入，无言地服从。连爱也在意识模糊之中，快要被吸入这诡异的现象。而这，正是席卷整个地区的集体怪异事件的开端……

儿子遭到绑架，洛杉矶市长候选人与妻子慌忙筹措赎金，同时还得做出艰难抉择，稍一不慎就可能导致他们的世界分崩离析。

故事围绕三个本与犯罪无缘的女性展开：一位是突然得知丈夫挪用公款并被解雇、育有两个孩子的母亲和歌子（有村架纯 饰）；一位是深陷奖学金还款压力、负债600万日元的研究员清惠（黑木华 饰）；还有一位则是身无分文的未婚准妈妈麻由（南沙良 饰）。她们在新加坡偶然相遇，在危险的黄金走私过程中建立起深厚的情感羁绊，并试图以此夺回金钱与自由，开启一场逆袭人生的博弈。

Elias dreams of a family. Christian is happy about their free existence in an open relationship, where they have time and money to travel, buy expensive designer furniture and love each other. Elias has been able to keep his longing at bay for a long time, but when he starts his new job as a psychologist at a school home, it is as if the burden is overflowing. He must face the fact that a life without a human responsibility for others than himself can never be a happy life for him.

This terrific coming-of-age film tells a story of growing up largely without parents, of the complex world of becoming an adult when the adults aren’t there. It’s the story of Flavia, autonomous and a bit uncouth; Flavia, whose mother works as a carer in Italy, her father on a construction site. She’s adopted a certain sarcasm she uses even with Luca, with whom she flirts in a cool way; the attraction is strong. Luca’s parents aren’t there either and his grandmother is frail, meaning he is the one more or less taking care of his sister Tina – who brings home two more kids with her one day. Fears of commitment and emotional blocks start to dissolve and, like in an adolescent novel, a self-chosen alternative family forms almost in passing, where living in freedom, critical relationships and taking care of one another are a given. Carried by Andrei Butică’s precise, yet loose-limbed camerawork and atmospheric direction inspired by Pialat and Rohmer, the adolescent ensemble takes on responsibility – and gets in the driving seat. Whether visiting caves in the forest or everyday life in a prefab block: their intelligence and vigour are delightful, the dynamics of their shared bonds subtle.