居住在埃兰谷的姬尔·强森(凯米拉·贝尔 Camilla Belle 饰)是一个普普通通女高中生,由于她煲电话粥过长,因此父亲本(克拉克·格莱格 Clark Gregg 饰)命令她当保姆赚取花费。万般无奈,姬尔只得应征来到曼卓基斯医生(Derek de Lint 饰)的家中。曼卓基斯及其夫人凯丽(Kate Jennings Grant 饰)住在一幢豪华的湖畔别墅中,屋内的装饰奢侈高贵,令姬尔目不暇接。她当晚的工作很简单,就是在曼卓基斯夫妇外出用餐时留下看家,并照顾他们两个正在生病的孩子。不久夜色降临,偌大的别墅内显得空空荡荡,冷清吊诡。正在此时,一通通神秘的电话接连打了进来,令姬尔变得恐慌与不安……
本片为1979年同名影片的翻拍之作。
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.