A charming bailiff's assistant poses as a young woman's butler until she can pay her debts.
A washed up, alcoholic Vet and a dreamer stable boy help nurse a sick race horse back to health.
Silky has always moved booze. In prohibition, he smuggled it from Canada, but now that it is legal, he produces his own brand. Seven years before, he sent Doc to prison because Doc was an honest man. Now that he is getting out, Silky wants an honest man as his general manager. When an English solicitor arrives to show that Silky is the new Earl of Gorley, Doc sees his chance to...
Jock Gray raises his collie Lassie to be an extraordinary sheep dog and companion. When he is beaten to death by robbers after he retires, Lassie keeps vigil over his grave and refuses to let anyone else take ownership of her. However, the law requires that all dogs be leashed and licensed by a legal owner. With no owner to pay her license and her only "home" being the church g...
The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing tensions within the family.
English dancehall actress Julia Packett hasn't seen her daughter since Susan was a few months old, having given her up to be raised by her respectable and wealthy father William (whom Julia never divorced.) When she gets an invitation to her daughter's wedding, she "borrows" some money from a male friend and heads off to the south of France for the nuptuals. While there she man...
劉別謙遺作，其筆觸修成了正果。孤女要步叔父後塵當水管工，卻跟英國這個講究階級與男女有別的社會格格不入。逃出納粹魔掌的波蘭詩人，像找到同道中人般發現了她，但她這時卻跑去當女傭，還打算像正常人一樣嫁入尋常紳士家。來了美國二十多年，劉別謙才將自身處境總結起來。片中上至貴族下至僕人儘管嘴臉可笑，但不致面目可憎，反而都有幾許人性的落墨，也許這才是劉別謙筆觸的最高境界。更厲害的是，這些筆觸彷彿都融會在兩個主角身上，不經意間能跟觀眾心靈互通。今天回看，這是他最歐洲化的作品，近親不就是雷諾亞。
Source: 28th HKIFF
