13岁的艾米(安娜·帕奎因 Anna Paquin 饰)在一场交通事故中失去了母亲,只好被送到与母亲离异多年的父亲(杰夫·丹尼尔斯 Jeff Daniels 饰)身边。父亲经营着一座农场,整日琢磨各种稀奇古怪的发明,面对已经长大的艾米难免不知所措,二人最初的相处生疏而隔阂。艾米收拾好丧母之痛,也努力适应农场生活,一日在一片树丛发现一窝被遗弃的大雁蛋,她小心将它们捧回家里,并成功孵出一窝小雁,但是出于政府野雁不可以家养的规定,艾米必须要令这些小雁放归自然。父亲想出了奇妙的主意帮助艾米,他动手为她制作了一架滑翔机,让她带着小雁学会飞翔,然后在迁徙季节一路护送“雁妈妈”艾米带领小雁们飞向安大略湖,在这个过程中,一对父女的心也开始紧紧连在一起……
Synopsis
A sudden gunshot destroys the dream of two lovers. The fate of Orpheus and Eurydice is a cruel one. On their wedding day, her soul is kidnapped and taken down into the Netherworld. Under a metaphysical sky Charon, the taxi driver, waits for the crime to be committed.
COMMENTARY
The movie is an opera-musical with an immersive and transmedial language. The myth is transposed into the contemporary age: Charon is a taxi driver and we go from Paris half under water to the stage of the Teatro Regio in Turin, in a play of musical references that range from Puccini to Händel, from Verdi to Gluck, from Vivaldi to Frankie Goes to Hollywood. And the images fuse words, lyric opera, fashion and the visual arts, between the real and the virtual.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
We created an unexpected encounter between acting and lyric opera, between pop, special effects and images filled with symbolism. Bringing into a cast of extraordinary actors such as Vincent Cassel, Fanny Ardant and Rossy De Palma two young artists selected among hundreds of lyric opera singers: Valentino Buzza and Mariam Battistelli.