01 "Winter Story"
One of Hou Mai's famous series "The Story of the Four Seasons". Felicity (Charlotte Harry) and Charlie (Federico van Dandich) fall in love by the sea, but they can no longer find each other because they leave a wrong address for a while. Felicity gave birth to Charlie's child, but has not been heard from in 5 years. Life goes on, and Felicity meets some men who like her, and they are also good men, such as the mature and considerate Masan (Michael Varetty) and the talented Louis. However, in Felicity's heart, Charlie is still a lingering beloved. It's not that she doesn't love them, it's just that she can't love them enough to live with them. She and Louis watched Shakespeare's opera "The Story of Winter" together, and quietly wept for the characters in it, perhaps she was holding on to a belief like the people in the play. Finally, one winter, Felicity and Charlie met again on the bus, and the day when the dream of persistence came true.
02 "Love Letter"
On a snowy winter day in Kobe, Japan, Hiroko Watanabe was once again so sad that she could not help herself on the third anniversary of her ex-fiancé Fujii Tree. Unable to suppress her longing for her deceased lover, Hiroko Watanabe found out in the middle school classmates' directory that "Fujii Tree" had addressed when she was studying in Otaru City, and sent a love letter that she thought was sent to heaven. Not long after Hiroko Watanabe received a reply signed "Fujii Tree", after further understanding, she learned that this Fujii Tree was a girl of her age and a classmate of her boyfriend Fujii Tree's boyhood. In order to learn more about her former lovers in middle school, Hiroko Watanabe began to exchange letters with the female Fujii Tree. In her constant memories, Fujii tree gradually discovered that the Fujii tree with the same surname as her when she was a teenager had hidden a tender feeling for herself.
03 "The Canary of the North"
Twenty years ago, the amiable Haru Kawashima (Koyuri Yoshinaga) and her husband Yuo (Kyobei Shibata) came to a cold island in Hokkaido. Chun became a teacher to only six students at the local primary school and discovered their singing talents. However, an accident killed the walker, and Chun, who was blamed by the villagers, left the island. Time goes back to the present, and Haru, who has just retired, is visited by two criminal police officers, and learns that one of the six teenagers of the year, Suzuki Nobuto (Mirai Moriyama), is involved in a murder. Holding on to all the doubts in her mind, Haru returns to kojima, where she visits students such as Toda Manami (Mitsuru Manjima), Naoki Ikushima (Ryo Katsuji), Yuhana Ando (Aoi Miyazaki), Nanae Fujimoto (Eiko Koike), and Isamu Matsuda (Ryuhei Matsuda). The events of that year left an indelible shadow in their hearts, and can this reunion open the hearts of teachers and students?
04 "Carol"
In the United States in the 1950s, a young woman, Theresie (Rooney Mara), worked as a sales clerk at a Department Store in New York, but her heart longed for a photographer's job. One day, a beautiful and elegant blonde lady, Carol (Kate Blanchett), comes to the department store to buy Christmas gifts and meets Therese. When the two meet, Therese learns that Carol has a daughter and is going through divorce with her husband, Haji (Kyle Chandler). Through correspondence, dating, and road trips, Therese and Carol discover that they are true love to each other, which was not allowed in society at the time. Tris's boyfriend thinks she's just confused, and Carol's husband asks a private investigator to investigate and collect evidence, hoping to leave her alone in divorce proceedings. The time has finally come to test the two women: can they stick to their hearts and carry their feelings to the end at any cost under social pressure? "Carol" is a new work by the famous American independent director Todd Haynes, which was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 68th Cannes Film Festival and won the Best Actress Award.
05 Ice Storm
This is one of everyone's favorite Ang Lee movies except for "Eating Men and Women". In Connecticut in 1973, Thanksgiving was approaching and an ice storm was coming. Middle-aged couples are fed up by the mundane and tedious family life, with husband Ben Hood (Kevin Klein) seducing neighbor Janet Harper, and wife (Joan Allen) impatient with her husband's lies. His son, Paul (Toby Maguire), has a crush on the most popular girl in the school. Daughter Wendy (Christina Ritchie) is interested in the Watergate hearing on TELEVISION. On the night of the ice storm, the couple goes to a friend's house for a cocktail party, and an important part of the cocktail party is to play a game of changing the keys to the room. After the cocktail party, each wife can marry another man, and their son will face a temptation and test...
06 "Hibernation"
Far from Istanbul's Anatolia, retired drama actor Eden (Haluk Bilginer) begins a new life as a columnist. He pretends to write religious articles day after day, immersed in the seemingly profound thinking world he has created. Aiden runs a hotel on a pension and has a number of properties for rent under his name, which makes him look more hypocritical and cold in his contact with ordinary people. Her younger sister, Nika (Demet Akbag), was divorced at an early age and often curled up in Aiden's study arguing about writing, even taunting and attacking each other. His wife, Nihar (Melisa Sözen), is young and independent and is passionate about various public welfare undertakings. The old husbands and wives who gather less and leave more and have very different attitudes in life are gradually drifting apart, and there are rifts in their feelings... The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.
07 "Daytime Fireworks"
When it comes to domestic winter movies, no one will not think of "Daytime Fireworks", just like talking about summer movies, it will not fall "Sunny Days". The cold-looking Wu Zhizhen (Gui Lunmeng) exudes the charm of a mature woman, which is a fatal temptation for men, especially for the policeman Zhang Zili (Liao Fan), who has a relationship with her. Five years ago, Wu Zhizhen's husband, Liang Zhijun (Wang Xuebing), was identified by the police as having died in a bizarre case of mutilated corpses, when Zhang Zili solved the case and killed the murderer who resisted arrest with a gun. Five years later, a similar serial case occurred, and the deceased were all in love with Wu Zhizhen. Zhang Zili, whose heart is still knotted, takes the initiative to approach Wu Zhizhen, but the moth to the fire fell in love with this woman, and the two people who suffered major life setbacks gradually went from pitying each other to falling in love, and with more intimate contact, Zhang Zili discovered the truth of five years ago...
08 "True Love Supreme"
It's a comedy chowder of 10 love stories: a little boy who has lost his mother is depressed all the time, and his stepfather doesn't know how to comfort him. When he learned that his stepson liked the most beautiful girl in school, he warmly encouraged his son to chase after him. In order to win the little girl's attention, the little boy practiced drum kits without sleeping, just so that he could perform with her at the Christmas party. Brave, he even broke through the security area of the airport for the sake of a final goodbye. The mother of two faces a marital crisis. The husband cheated on her feelings and gave the necklace to another woman, giving her only a CD of the female singer she loved. She made an excuse to hide in the bedroom and sobbed in silence. Turning around, he laughed exaggeratedly and greeted the happy face of the delicate girl Aizi. The husband finally woke up... There are ten such small stories, which warm your heart and mine.