爱尔兰渔夫锡拉丘兹（科林·法瑞尔 Colin Farrell 饰）从海上捞起了一个神秘的美丽女子，名唤奥丁（艾丽卡·巴赫蕾达 Alicja Bachleda 饰）。锡拉丘兹将不愿见人的奥丁安置在自己母亲的海滨老屋中，意外发现奥丁竟给他的渔船带来了好运。锡拉丘兹的女儿安妮（艾莉森·巴瑞 Alison Barry 饰）患有肾脏衰竭，与酗酒的母亲莫拉（德乌拉·基尔万 Dervla Kirwan 饰）及其男友一起生活。安妮与奥丁结下了坚固的友谊，她相信奥丁是苏格兰神话中的海豹少女，上岸后埋下自己的海豹皮，便可在陆地生活七年，直到自己的海豹丈夫前来带她返回大海深处。锡拉丘兹果然与奥丁彼此相爱，但他对奥丁是真正身份一直半信半疑，直到某个黑发男子的神秘出现，要带走奥丁……　　本片被提名爱尔兰电影电视协会最佳服装设计、最佳导演、最佳影片及最佳电影剧本奖，并获最佳男主角（科林·法瑞尔）、最佳女配角（德乌拉·基尔万）、最佳布景及最佳声音奖。

该片改编自2009年奇坦·巴哈特同名小说，讲述一个旁遮普小伙子克里斯与一位泰米尔婆罗门女孩阿娜娅从相恋到坎坷步入婚姻殿堂的故事。当一个精明的男人遇上一个聪明的女人，是双剑合璧还是明抢暗夺？当蛮横无理的婆婆遇上自以为是的老妈，是不共戴天还是你死我活？当爱情遇上未来，婚姻遇上帮派，当他们不得不面对分离、背叛、利用、文化分歧、不正常的家庭、歇斯底里的亲友、勾心斗角的环境……　　作品创作灵感源于作者和妻子的真实经历：两个来自印度不同阶层、不同文化背景的两个年轻人，深深相爱且准备结婚。当然，他们的父母并不同意。为了能把他们的爱情转化为婚姻，他们需要在长辈面前进行一场艰苦的战役。叛逆和斗争都是简单易行的，但是要成功就难了。他们能做到吗？他们是克服了重重阻挠，还是为了不得已的苦衷而半途放弃？　　近些年，奇坦·巴哈特的作品不断被改编成电影搬上银幕，如《热线你我他》《三个白痴》《断线人生》等。

主人公是22岁的少女妮可，父母外出后独自照看房子，她和好朋友韦萝妮克享受着夏日惬意的时光。这种平静被妮可的哥哥打破了，他带着他的乐队出现了，他们正打算为专辑录歌。两个女孩的友谊受到了考验。她们的假日出现了意想不到的转折。妮可开始失眠，并且收到了来自一个只有十岁的男孩坚持不渝的追求。

In small czech town named Jilemnice live unfortunate, but brave and jovial woman Štěpa Kiliánová, whose only desire was to fill the void in her virgin life. In despair and excessive trust, she married a sardonic, reclusive man, former lieutenant and gambler Pavel Malina, whose only wish was finally found peace and forgetting the past. They lived through unrequited love, dislike and disappointment. But no one knew that her groom begin to show signs of cerebral disease, which in the coming years engulf his sanity.

The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich; his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.