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“澳大利亚内陆黑色小说”——这种以澳大利亚苍茫内陆为背景的犯罪小说已成为一股文学风潮。本片的故事同样发生在澳大利亚的一个偏远内陆小镇，侦探特拉维斯来到这里调查一起二十年前原住民女孩被杀害的案件，而最终发现的种种真相揭示了原住民所遭受的不公待遇。身为原住民的澳大利亚知名独立导演伊凡·森心系同胞命运拍摄了这部发人深思的佳作。多才多艺的他在片中身兼编、导、摄影、剪辑、音乐等数职，以黑白影像将风景壮丽的旅游小镇库伯佩地塑造成地狱般的“黑色荒漠”，创造出一种令人惊叹的怪异与荒凉感，入围柏林电影节主竞赛单元，更被《卫报》首席影评人彼得·布莱德肖盛赞为“一部杰出的内陆黑色电影”。。Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts that were custom-made for kings and explores the medieval world they reveal. Part 1: Ruling by the Book Janina begins her journey with the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England, encountering books in the British Library's Royal manuscripts collection which are over a thousand years old and a royal family tree which is five metres long. Janina finds out about a king who had a reputation for chasing nuns and reads a book created as a wedding gift for a ten-year-old prince. She roams from Westminster Abbey to other ancient English spiritual sites such as Winchester, St Albans and Malmesbury, and sees for herself how animal skins can be transformed into the finest vellum. Part 2: What a King Should Know Janina shows how medieval manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion, discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France. In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection Dr Ramirez finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. She also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopaedia. Part 3: Libraries Gave Us Power The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the magnificent courts of the Tudors. She investigates astrological texts created for Henry VII, and unwraps his will - still in its original, extravagantly-decorated velvet and gold cover. She hears music written for Henry VIII, which went unperformed for centuries| and reads love notes between the king and Anne Boleyn, written in the margins of a prayer book. Nina also visits Bruges, the source of many of the greatest manuscripts, where this medieval art form collided with the artistic innovations of the Renaissance. （转自mvgroup论坛）。