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一个画家来到远离尘世的小山村，试图结束自己的生命。画家借宿在山顶一个年迈的老妪家里。那被岁月摧残的面容，丝毫没有减弱老婆婆的生命力，在这荒蛮的山野间，枯槁的身躯仍在灿烂的绽放着。结局是充满震撼力的：那个无力的生命最终无法被结束；而那些生机勃勃的，却突然终止于意外事故中……这似乎在情理之中，又在意料之外，生命原本就是这么脆弱。。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）。13岁的却斯（爱德华·福隆饰）在亲眼目睹母亲意外伤亡的惨剧后，他和父亲为避免触景伤情搬到偏远郊区居住；却斯与年龄相近的邻居乔很快便结为好友，不幸的是，乔却有个爱动粗的酒鬼继父，当乔养的小狗被继父打死后，将之葬在邻近的一处坟场，想不到没过多久小狗竟死而复活！其后乔的继父和却斯亡母的尸骨，亦相继葬在这个具有神秘力量的坟场……。
