Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world.
Writer and director Addison Heimann’s second feature film is provocatively comedic, inventive, and insane in the best possible way. An ode to the deliriously stylistic lens of Japanese cinema in the ’60s and ’70s, Touch Me dares to “go there” with its themes of mental health, desire, and Hentai-infused sexual abandon. Olivia Taylor Dudley sinks into character to portray a fractured and wandering human being in desperate need of a life-affirming touch, while Lou Taylor-Pucci’s tracksuit-clad alien persona is played to delightful perfection. Jordan Gavaris and Marlene Forte round out an impeccable cast of far-out characters who manage to be at once acrimonious yet relatable. The end result is a weird, wild, and frenzied fever dream with so much to unpack. While we may not be able to relieve ourselves of self-doubt, deep-seated childhood trauma, and debilitating anxiety with the simple touch of an extraterrestrial being, maybe life isn’t so bad after all?
The story is said to follow a pair of loner college undergrads, Jack and Montgomery, who order a take-out pie, but accidentally take a homemade drug that turns a two-floor journey downstairs into a “mind-bendingly transformative quest.”
在这个世界上,总有一些人因为他们的特立独行而被人铭记。杨(马克斯·冯·西多 Max von Sydow 饰)和伊娃(丽芙·乌曼 Liv Ullmann 饰)是一对个性独特的音乐家夫妻,战争的到来摧毁了他们赖以生存的家园,为了躲避战乱,两人乘船来到了一座小岛之上,在那里,夫妻两过上了日出而作日落而息的田园生活。 好景不长,战火很快就蔓延到了小岛上,军队和紧接而来的游击队打得不可开交,杨和伊娃好不容易得来的平静生活再度面临巨大危机,好在有好友雅克比(甘纳尔·布耶恩施特兰德 Gunnar Björnstrand 饰)慷慨地出手相救,他们才得以脱离险境。然而,令杨无法接受的是,雅克比在身为恩人的同时竟也是他的情敌,他和伊娃之间并不纯洁的关系令杨心中妒火中烧。