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钱包要被掏空！五月值得一看的三部海外新片

It’s already been an excellent year at the movies, and we’re not even halfway through 2023 yet. This May’s lineup suggests it’s about to get even better.

Hypnotic

Nothing is what it seems in Hypnotic, a movie from Robert Rodriguez. Ben Affleck stars as a police detective (警探) who is haunted by the disappearance of his daughter. He is investigating a series of bank robberies when a mystery woman (Alice Braga) tells him about “hypnotics”: people who have the power to make others believe and do anything they want by using a single sentence.

Released (上映) on 11 May in Australia, 12 May in the US & 26 May in the UK

The Little Mermaid

Another month, another live-action-and-CGI remake of a classic Disney cartoon. But this one is more special than most, because a black actress, Halle Bailey, is playing the lead character, who was white in the 1989 cartoon. Besides, the film’s director, Rob Marshall, argues that his The Little Mermaid is progressive in other ways, too. He told Nick Romano at EW, she and Prince Eric, played by Jonah Hauer-King, “really teach the world about prejudice (偏见) and about breaking down barriers and walls between these two worlds.”

On general release from 24 May

The Eight Mountains

All of the mountains in The Eight Mountains are clean and beautiful. Some of them are in the Himalayas, but most are in the Italian Alps, where Pietro (Luca Marinelli), a city boy from Turin, becomes friends with Bruno (Alessandro Borghi), the only child left in a remote rural village. The movie is a chronicle (编年史) of their friendship through the decades.

Released on 5 May in Japan, 12 May in the UK and Ireland, and 19 May in Spain and Finland