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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）。1995年12月8日，一场突如其来的灾难袭向了家庭事业双得意总编吉恩•多米尼克•鲍比（Mathieu Amalric 饰）。他的脑干突然中风，继而引发极其罕见、概率极低的闭锁症候群。罹患此症的吉恩全身瘫痪，只有左眼尚能自由活动。他形容自己就如同困在潜水钟里一般，身体被紧紧箍住，无法动弹，而心灵却像蝴蝶一样在广阔的天地里自由飞翔。吉恩凭借着左眼和顽强的意志以及语音矫正师的协助，与世界做着无声的交流…… 本片荣获2007年AFI电影节观众奖最佳影片奖；2007年波士顿影评人协会最佳摄影、最佳导演和最佳外语片奖；2007年戛纳电影节最佳导演奖和技术大奖；2008年法国凯撒电影节最佳男主角（Mathieu Amalric）和最佳编剧奖。。
