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　　一名性格特立独行的纽约对冲基金交易员Conner Lee（丁温庆 饰）受到美国及亚洲两般金融恶势力的牵引，到香港展开了一场惊天动地的家族企业并购商战。为求达成这项市值数十亿元的世纪商业买卖，Conner不择手段，并甘愿以自己的生命以及一间公司的未来作赌注，决意在香港这个复杂的弹丸之地以身犯险。

　　一场突如其来的鼠疫在德国科隆降临。一时之间，街道、下水道、家里、垃圾堆，到处都堆满了老鼠。一例例被感染的病人相继死去。一批批的人被强硬隔离起来，恐惧与慌乱随着空气一起蔓延开来，整个城市被死神的阴影笼罩着…… 在德国的科隆，发生了出人意料的事情，中世纪的瘟疫——“黑死病”再次侵袭了这座城市。事发于一个流浪汉猝死街头，令人难以置信地显现了黑死病地症候。综合医疗调查组的马丁·布鲁格医生和疾病控制专家克莱蒙·林德斯尔在这座古城发现了可怕的一幕。大堆的死鼠堵塞了下水道，是它们引起瘟疫德吗？为了避免市民恐慌，政府没有接受专家的意见。只是一些要人也开始变得奄奄一息时，事情才明朗起来……

　　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.

　　如果中年人生是一场修行，该期待的是顿悟，还是在矇眼的黑暗中放慢呼吸？模范主妇严太太在买菜煮饭、带狗看医生的琐碎日常中，持续过着灵修人生；上班无趣，下班无处可去的严先生，也日复一日地过着“修行”般敬而远之的婚姻生活。直到严太太意外接到一通电话，得知多年前丈夫短暂出轨的对象住进了疗养院的消息，原本凝固的日子便开始掀起波澜⋯⋯
　　《修行》改编自作家王定国的短篇小说《妖精》。导演钱翔再次携手金马影后陈湘琪，搭配金马影帝陈以文饰演一对感情零温度的夫妻，全片探讨中年婚姻危机与难解的人生课题，以细腻而诗意的影像语言，对情感与人性层层剖析。如果无爱的婚姻是一场修行，该盼望的是回应，还是在无声的日子里得过且过？