铁娘子：坚固柔情

　　刚果首都金沙萨。单亲母亲菲丽希缇每晚在低廉的小酒馆驻唱，结果儿子萨蒙突然遭遇摩托车事故面临截肢，让这个贫穷但骄傲的女人被迫到处筹钱为儿子手术，过程中她获得了杂工塔布的帮助，也更多遭遇了别人的冷眼和羞辱。可最后儿子没有摆脱截肢厄运......

　　Erstwhile Special Forces operative Doc Alexander is asked to broker a truce with the Mexican drug cartel in secrecy. When Oklahoma Governor Richard Jeffs celebrates the execution of a high-ranking cartel member on TV, his Chief of Staff and Doc inform him about the peace he just ended. But it’s too late, as Cuco, the cartel’s hatchet man, has set his vengeful sights on Doc’s daughter Dixie.
　　They don’t make ’em like Little Dixie anymore: honed to the bone, all gestures and actions, only a few words. Too many genre films these days try to create meaning by piling ideas and intentions on their narrative frames. John Swab, as always, works the other way around. Meaning and depth come from taking away whatever is superfluous – by reducing the plot to its bare essence and the characters to their core trades and tricks.
　　Ultimately, Little Dixie feels like the pulp fiction version of a Giacometti sculpture, all fearful symmetries and mirror images. A gem of crime cinema at its purest and most philosophical, proudly featuring noir’s new darling, Frank Grillo.