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the crow’s egg
兩個小孩的 piZZa
TIME
venue
29/10 9:50pm bc
31/10 5:05pm ifc

印度 India / 2015 / 98 min / 淡米爾語對白,中英文字幕 In Tamil with Chinese and English Subtitles
導演 Dir: 曼里瑾丹 M. Manikandan
演員 Cast: Ramesh, Vignesh, Aishwarya Rajesh

多倫多電影節 Toronto International Film Festival

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來自草根的兩小兄弟,與母親祖母相依為命。一間新Pizza店在家附近開張,為了一嚐從未試過的Pizza味道,兩兄弟絞盡腦汁揾錢,祖母甚至嘗試改良印度Dosa扮Pizza但失敗。兩兄弟Pizza大過天,誤打誤撞下竟捲入大漩渦,更成為全國爭相報道的風頭躉。兄弟最終得償所願,但結果又是否盡如人意?乍看像《一百萬零一夜》,主角同樣來自貧民窟,同樣是一夜成名,但其實是兩弟兄的成長故事,猶如印度版的《奇蹟》。首次執導的土生土長新晉導演曼里瑾丹,拍出印度風味的「孩子戲」,自編自導自攝初執導筒就奪得印度國家電影獎最佳兒童電影;兩位小演員更雙雙奪得國家電影奬最佳兒童演員。

M. Manikandan tackles social and class division in India with a surprisingly rousing and crowd-pleasing first feature. Brothers Big Crow’s Egg (Vignesh) and Little Crow’s Egg (Ramesh), so-named because they eat stolen crow’s eggs every day, live and play in the Chennai slums. Their father in jail and their mother (Aishwarya Rajesh) struggling to raise them, the boys lead a bleak life, but they approach each day positively and with pride. But when a greasy pizza restaurant opens nearby, the boys find a new goal: To sample their first pizza! One pizza costs more than their family’s monthly income, so they launch their own money-making schemes and inadvertently begin an adventure that comes to involve the entire city.