本片根据米兰·昆德拉的同名小说改编。1968年,布拉格外科手术医生托马斯(丹尼尔·戴-刘易斯 Daniel Day-Lewis 饰)生活在对女人追逐的快乐中,享受着性的快感。画家萨比娜(莉娜·奥琳 Lena Olin 饰)是托马斯的红颜知己,但在一次去温泉疗养院出诊的过程中,托马斯结识了女招待特蕾莎(朱丽叶·比诺什Juliette Binoche 饰)。不久,特蕾莎只身来到布拉格,二人结婚。托马斯在婚后依然不改与萨比娜或其他女人偷情的恶习,特蕾莎无法忍受托马斯的不忠,深夜出走,却碰上苏联武装入侵捷克。三人先后逃亡至瑞士日内瓦,萨比娜认识了当地大学教授弗兰茨(德雷克·德·林特 Derek de Lint 饰),特蕾莎失去工作终日闷闷不乐,带着小狗卡列宁孤身重返布拉格。在自由与束缚之间,托马斯究竟该如何选择呢?
本片是1988年美国十佳影片之一,获1989年奥斯卡最佳摄影、最佳改编剧本提名,金球奖最佳剧情片和最佳女配角(莉娜·奥琳)提名,并获英国电影电视协会最佳改编剧本奖,美国影评人协会最佳导演和最佳影片奖。
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.