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玛丽安（凯瑟琳·德纳芙 Catherine Deneuve 饰）和约翰（大卫·鲍伊 David Bowie 饰）已经不太记得请他们究竟在一起多长时间了，他们只知道，每过7天，他们都需要饮下人类的血液，以此保留青春，没错，他们都是吸血鬼。约翰的突然衰老给玛丽安带来了恐慌，因为在她漫长了生命里，这样的事情发生过不止一次，然而每一次，能终结这种衰老的只有死亡。 萨拉（苏珊·萨兰登 Susan Sarandon 饰）将自己的毕生精力都投入到了研究长生不老药上面，不幸的是，萨拉的研究也无法挽救约翰，他最终死去。美丽性感的莎拉吸引了玛丽安的注意，可莎拉却并不想像玛丽安那样变成吸血鬼。为了反抗玛丽安，莎拉选择了自杀，站在莎拉的尸体旁，玛丽安知道，自己将再一次陷入到无尽的孤独和寂寞之中。。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）。
