Directed and edited by Esfir Shub. A devastating chronicle of Tsarist Russia from the eve of World War I until its brutal demise in the revolutions of February and October 1917, The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty comprises hundreds of films that Esfir Shub unearthed and rescued from damp cellars and other neglected corners of the Soviet Union, including newsreels and home movies taken by the Tsar’s own cameramen. Using the film splice as a cudgel, Shub contrasts the Imperial Family in opulent ballrooms, regal processions, and garden tea parties with the backbreaking toil of the masses, a bitter satire that makes the Revolution seem both historically inevitable and triumphant. One of the great pleasures of this Vertov retrospective is rediscovering the work of certain largely forgotten women filmmakers of the Soviet avant-garde, including Elizaveta Svilova, Vertov’s editor and wife, and Shub, who pioneered “found footage” cinema and was instrumental in the development of dialectical montage, collaborating with Sergei Eisenstein on the shooting scripts of Strike and Potemkin. (from moma.org)
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吳家偉（馬浚偉 飾）多年來自怨自責，終於有一日，他下了一個重大的決定，去做一件他期待已久的事.....家偉的母親阿梅（顧美華 飾）在她26歲時確診患上鼻煙癌，家偉當年只有6歲。家偉和父親陪伴阿梅一起抗癌，他雖然年紀輕輕，但十分懂事。可惜，阿梅最終不敵病魔，與世長辭。家偉因為母親的離去，變得更沉默，將所有責任包攬在自己身上，這份罪咎感，令他多年來被抑鬱、驚恐所吞噬....家偉的主治醫生美思（余香凝 飾），自小被父親拋棄成為孤兒，家偉對母親的思念之情在她眼中，只是微不足道的事，她的冷漠與家偉對家人的愛形成強烈對比。但在家偉的幫助下，美思最終能彌補了多年來的親情缺憾。