An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

2014 film

《闻所未闻》是阿梅丽•诺冬写日本的第三部具有强烈自传色彩的小说。第一部《管子的玄思》写的就是她幼年时期在日本的故事，第二部《诚惶诚恐》写的则是她长大后返回日本在某公司工作的遭遇，《闻所未闻》的故事也发生在这一时期。 作者通过一个日本男子和一个比利时女子的恋爱来反映东西方在人生观、道德观、价值观方面的差异，而种种有趣的故事和误会就从这种差异中生发出来，让人发笑，引人思考。在诺冬笔下，日本人总是那么滑稽可笑，有时甚至十分可恨。他们不拘言笑，等级分明，活得很认真，但也很累、很虚伪，所以，他们往往成为作者嘲讽的对象，爱情也不例外。在这部小说中，女主人公的爱情是认真的，她真心喜欢这个完美的日本“未婚夫”，但真的到了谈婚论嫁的时候，她又害怕了，逃之夭夭。对她来说，爱情是宝贵的，但更重要的是精神和行动的自由。 《闻所未闻》是阿梅丽•诺冬的第十六部小说，荣获法国“花神”文学奖。 该奖项由小说家和文学评论家弗雷德里克•贝格伯德于一九九四年创建，每年十一月在著名的“花神”咖啡馆由一批文学记者进行评选，专门奖励具有写作才能和前景的年轻作者。获奖者除赢得六千多欧元奖金外，还会在“花神”咖啡馆拥有一盏刻着自己姓名的酒杯，可在此享用一年卢瓦尔河谷出产的“波梅”白葡萄酒。

Amlie is a young language teacher living in Tokyo. When she succumbs to the attentions of a student--the shy, wealthy, and oh-so-Japanese Rinri--the lovers find themselves swept along by an affair that is as unusual as it is tender.

Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons - a sex change operation, a night with two prostitutes dressed as nuns, and a stay in a luxury hotel. Lawrence Osborne comes for the cheap dentistry. Broke - but no longer in pain - he finds that he can live in Bangkok on a few dollars a day. Osborne's is a visceral experience of Bangkok, whether he's wandering the canals that fill the old city; dining at the No Hands Restaurant, where his waitress feeds him like a baby; or launching his own notably unsuccessful career as a gigolo. A guide without inhibitions, Osborne takes us to a feverish place where a strange blend of ancient Buddhist practice and new sexual mores has created a version of modernity only superficially indebted to the West. "Bangkok Days" is a love letter to the city that revived Osborne's faith in adventure and the world. 'Thailand inspires such enthralled romanticism that it also invites great cynicism and it is a feat to acknowledge all its complexities and graces, as Osborne does, without ever quite surrendering to them' - Pico Iyer, "Los Angeles Times".

Wally, a struggling playwright and actor, reluctantly agrees to catch up with his old friend Andre, a theater director who disappeared several years prior in order to travel the world. Meeting at a posh Manhattan restaurant, the two share life stories, anecdotes and philosophical musings over the course of an evening meal.

2013 film directed by Harmony Korine

After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, to claims that he saved her from an apocalyptic attack.

Claire Newbold is not your typical heroine. Smart and sexy, yes, but she's also been known to sneak into a hotel room or two without paying, seduce a teenager in wet bathing trunks, and just check out of things altogether--like her job. And her marriage. No wonder, though. Claire's been careening off heartbreak. Her only child has died, she may be infertile, and her husband has had an affair. No longer a mother, not sure she wants to be a wife, Claire moves from hotel to hotel, basking in the anonymity of travel and forbidden sex. She even comes to believe she is clairvoyant, able to "read" into the souls of others. Eventually she begins to see into her own soul as she ponders whether or not to return home. As she struggles to repair her marriage and her life, Claire surprises herself -- and us -- by emerging with a new sense of redemption.

我真正進入彈珠玩具的咒術世界是 1973 年的事。那半年左右，我覺得好像在黑洞裡過的似的。在草原正中央挖了一口適合我尺寸的洞穴，在那裡蒙起頭把身體埋進去，並塞起耳朵斷絕所有的聲音。任何事情發生也引不起我的興趣。而每天傍晚一醒過來就穿上大衣，到遊樂場的角落裡消遣時間。 機器是好不容易才找到的三把式「太空船」，跟傑式酒吧完全相同的機型。硬幣放進去壓一下開始的按鈕，機器便動也不動一下就發出一連串的聲音，出現 10 個目標，得獎燈消失，得分還原成 6 個 0，球道彈出第一粒彈珠，無限的硬幣丟進機器，那恰是一個月後冷雨下個不停的初冬的黃昏。我的得分像氣球拋下最後一包砂袋一樣，越過了第 6 位數。 我把顫抖的手指像要擰下揮把的按鈕似的放著，背靠在牆上，一面喝著冷得像冰一樣的罐裝啤酒，一面長時間凝視著得分板上標示出來的 105220這 6 位數字。 我和彈珠玩具的短暫蜜月就那樣開始了。