第33届多伦多国际电影节的开幕影片. 根据一次世界大战的真实故事改编而成。影片讲述了在震惊世界的帕斯尚尔战役期间，一对恋人的不幸遭遇。历史上的帕斯尚尔战役，于1917年7月31日爆发，一直持续到11月6日，交战双方英国和德国经历了长达四个多月的拉锯战。英军期望攻占比利时的帕斯尚尔，以摧毁德军设在该地的潜水艇基地，结果在攻守之间，万众将士毙命——盟军32.5万人伤亡，德军26万人伤亡，这场惨烈无比的战争，最后以英军攻占帕斯尚尔宣告结束。影片拍摄周期长达两年。
I can see people will either love or hate this movie, depending on your own experiences and loves. Its basically about a incredibly obese police officer coming to terms with his own mortality (he is given a year to live at the start of the movie). It has other bits and pieces in the plot (love, mystery etc), but these are not the central ideal of the movie. I found myself crying in many parts of this movie, for myself being fat (and have been my entire life... of course not to the degree of the main actor, but to a degree which has caused bullying my entire life) this story hits very close to home. And some of the subtle emotional behind the scene's stuff here definitely adds to the mood. Anyone who has had any sort of eating disorder (over or under eating whatever) will recognise things in this movie, and will more then likely be in tears by the first 30 minutes of the movie.
受产前抑郁困扰的法莎娜从雾雨车窗外望，瞥见丈夫贾拉身影进入高级公寓，怀疑他有外遇，贾拉却言之凿凿当天不在德黑兰。查探之下，竟发现另一对夫妇，相貌与他们雷同，俨如是彼此分身。对镜互照，看出自己的不足，也看出伴侣的缺陷，单纯的偶遇演变成纠结四角关系。掩映在暗黑光影下是希区柯克式悬疑惊栗，渗透于滂沱大雨中却是曼尼·夏希希对伊朗式婚姻、道德以至人性矛盾的深沉体悟；在神权政体下，人必须自我分裂甚至自我毁灭，方能让“我”活下去？
