聚会的目的：开始

　　小有名气的建筑师埃文·韦伯（基努·里维斯 Keanu Reeves 饰）事业有成，生活美满。他住在洛杉矶一套亲手设计的别墅中，妻子凯伦（伊格纳西·阿尔曼德 Ignacia Allamand 饰）美艳动人，一双儿女杰克（Dan Baily 饰）和莉莎（Megan Baily 饰）乖巧可爱。某个假日，凯伦驱车带着孩子们外出度假，留下埃文一人在家中工作。瓢泼大雨之夜，艾文突然听到了敲门声。来者是被淋成落汤鸡的女孩贝尔（安娜·德·阿玛斯 Ana de Armas 饰）和吉妮丝（洛伦扎·伊佐 Lorenza Izzo 饰），他们迷失方向，请求埃文提供帮助。两个女孩就像善解人意又诱惑媚人的小妖精，让埃文多少有些把持不住。　　色字头上一把刀，世间哪有从天而降的美食和便宜……

　　亚历克斯（摩根·弗里曼 Morgan Freeman 饰）是一名资历丰富的警探，这一次，他被派遣负责国会议员女儿被绑架一案。杰姬（莫妮卡·波特 Monica Potter 饰）是负责保护被绑架女孩安全的特工，正为了自己的疏忽和失职自责不已，趁此机会，她强烈要求成为亚历克斯的搭档，一同侦破此案。　　随着调查的深入，一个名为加里（迈克尔·温科特 Michael Wincott 饰）的男人浮出了水面，除了绑架了议员的女儿，他还和城中发生的数起绑架案有着千丝万缕的联系。亚历克斯和杰姬随即展开了岁加里的追捕，然而，老奸巨猾的加里并不会轻易的被警方捕获，恰恰相反，在不知不觉间，亚历克斯走入了加里所设下的弥天陷阱之中。

 在时装周的狂热中，三位女性在巴黎的生活中不期而遇，她们一边应对着世界的悲剧，一边思索着自己人生的问题：麦克斯（Maxine），一位40多岁的美国电影导演，发现自己患上了癌症；阿达（Ada），一位年轻的南苏丹模特，逃离了她注定的命运，却被推入了一个充满欺骗的世界；安吉尔（Angèle），一位在T台幕后默默工作的法国化妆师，梦想着逃离自己的生活。

　　青春少女玛丽（Cécile De France 饰）和爱莉西娅（Maïwenn Le Besco 饰）是同在法国巴黎一所大学就读的好朋友。某个周末，两人驱车前往爱莉西娅家位于乡下的农场度假。适值深夜，万籁俱寂，玛丽寂寞难耐正在自我宣泄之时，一个不速之客突然闯入。他残忍杀害了爱莉西娅的父母和年幼的弟弟，并将其掳去。为了营救好友，玛丽悄悄钻进凶手的卡车。途经一个加油站，她换上同样惨遭杀害的店员的车继续跟踪，却被狡猾的凶手发现行迹。一场近乎迷幻的猫鼠杀戮游戏旋即进入高潮……　　本片荣获2003年Sitges – Catalonian国际电影节最佳女主角（Cécile De France）、最佳导演、最佳化装和欧洲奇幻电影大奖银奖。

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　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.