保罗·范霍文(《她》《黑皮书》)导演新片《圣母玛利亚》(Blessed Virgin)预计八月在意大利开拍,聚焦现代西方最早记录在案的女同性恋故事。设定在17世纪的意大利,修女Bernadetta Carlini饱受宗教和情色方面的困扰,她得到了另一位修女Bartolomea的帮助,两人在日常交往中逐渐心生爱恋,发展了一段浪漫爱情故事。维吉妮·艾菲拉(《她》《维多利亚》)饰演Bernadetta Carlini,Bartolomea的扮演者还未确定,范霍文的老搭档Gerard Soeteman(《黑皮书》《第四人》)编写剧本,基于Judith C. Brown所著小说《Immodest Acts The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy》。
Based on the internationally acclaimed Tudor murder mystery novels by C.J. Sansom, the four-part drama is set in 16th century England during the dissolution of the monasteries. The series will follow the story of Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer with an acute sense of justice and one of the few honest men in a world beset with scheming and plots. Shardlake works for Thomas Cromwell, the dangerous and all-powerful right-hand man to Henry VIII. Despite Shardlake’s unwavering loyalty to Cromwell and the Crown, his position in society is unfavored due to his appearance, as a person living with scoliosis during the Tudor period, suffering the indignity of being abused as a “crookback” wherever he turns. As he investigates the murder of one of Cromwell’s commissioners at a monastery in the remote town of Scarnsea, he is accompanied by Jack Barak, a cocky and good-looking character who may be Cromwell’s spy.
Nothing is more frightening, as the narrator points out, than a ‘time-rich nosy person’. Exhibit A is Ahn Geo-ul (Gyeong Su-jin), who commits herself to social justice causes with terrifying tenacity. After temporarily renting a unit in the Baek-sae Apartment building, she discovers that a loud, hard to locate banging noise occurs from 4am every night, making the residents’ lives an insomniac hell – and so she determines to engage in her own disruption and to find the culprit of this acoustic assault, simultaneously eliminating her eccentric neighbours as suspects, and recruiting them to her cause. Focusing on a woman who is an unstoppable force for good, it is also a plea for community cohesion and solidarity.