亚瑟(阿尔·帕西诺 Al Pacino 饰)是一位精明强干的律师,在车水马龙的繁华都市巴尔的摩生活和工作。和大部分利欲熏心为了金钱可以放弃底线的同行们不同,亚瑟始终坚守着自己正义的准则,为小人物发声,绝不违背良心。 亚瑟的出淤泥而不染让同行们对他敬而远之,将其视作异类,然而亚瑟并不在意。某日,在法庭上,亚瑟得罪了法官亨利(约翰·福赛思 John Forsythe 饰),两人就此结下了梁子。谁知道,当亚瑟再度见到亨利之时,后者已经因为强暴伤害罪沦为了阶下囚。亨利要求亚瑟替自己辩护,如果亚瑟不从,这势必会对他今后的职业道路产生毁灭性的打击。
Mehran Tamadon explores what it was like being interrogated by the Iranian regime by asking prisoners to reconstruct their experiences.
Alongside his companion film Where God Is Not, My Worst Enemy finds Tamadon shifting focus from the interrogated to the interrogator. The filmmaker sought an individual who had been interrogated by Iranian authorities in order to draw on their experiences to play an interrogator. The role finally fell to the Cannes-winning lead actor of Holy Spider, Zar Amir Ebrahimi. Together in an anonymous room, with Tamadon stripped to his underwear, they reconstruct the interrogation process, which gradually becomes an examination of the nature of power and coercion. The resulting film is intense and, at times, uncomfortable. And as it progresses, My Worst Enemy becomes an exploration of cinema’s relationship with its audience, questioning whether there is a limit to what it can show.
A 12-year-old boy turns to a charismatic loner for help after being beaten up at school, in director Miles Warren’s searing feature debut about fathers, families, and the effects of fighting.