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.
2.5 有动人之处，但整体还是太普通了。@TIFF2021
找到彼此最奇妙的际遇与相处的火花，不因分歧与偏差影响两颗同样的心渐渐靠近；我可以听我的所爱，你可以拥有你的过去。各种各样的身份定义和现实背景被抛在了一边，甚至不曾有最浅显的情欲插入其中；舒服的节奏，自然将这样关于邂逅的故事自然推向了讨喜的区域。走到这里，它不甘于此，抛出了“声音”与大量音乐作为展示；也可望见像《金属之声》的美妙。算上《爱的后事》，不敢小瞧这些在BAFTA出现的“路人”。
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 b...
白女黑男 就尬 以为自己法斯宾德呢？
被拒人生，还要（偏要）跳舞。
