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
主演： 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
上映地区：英国
阿里与艾娃是观一场烟花秀，看烟花划进夜空，渐入佳境，于高潮时绽放。好电影以叙事和画面做向导，请观众的经验、情绪、思考铺满这个烟花会场，临到结尾，会场光影绽放，斑斓明亮，此时刻有高光共鸣，散场后意犹未尽的讨论
世界在变，我在衰老，我总归会远离能力极限的界碑，一切都成为过去式。如死亡不可拒绝，只有早晚。但总有这样的观点：当某人再达不到之的好成绩时，便跳出来批评，貌似从极限回落是一件羞耻的事情，羞耻到那个颠峰已不值一提。
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