瑞贝卡(Floriane Daniel 饰)和罗拉(Marie-Lou Sellem 饰)是无话不谈的好友兼室友。某日,瑞贝卡的男友马克(海诺·弗兹 Heino Ferch 饰)开着新买的车来找瑞贝卡,却在紧要关头忘记了锁车。于是,他的车被一位名叫雷尼(乌里奇·马特斯 Ulrich Matthes 饰)的男子给开走了。
雷尼驾驶着马克的车与一辆大卡车相撞了,雷尼并无大碍,跌跌撞撞的离开了现场,而卡车司机的女儿却在这场事故中不幸丧命。一次偶然中,罗拉和雷尼相遇、相爱了,罗拉发现雷尼似乎患有短期记忆障碍症。与此同时,卡车司机一直都在寻找杀死他女儿的凶手,而马克则爱上了另一个名叫妮娜(Laura Tonke 饰)的女孩,然而这并不意味着他对瑞贝卡失去了兴趣。
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.