p 　　In Uruguay, they don 三九 t say cheese in front of the camera - they say whisky Beneath the artificially photographed smiles, however, is a blueprint for the quot South American Gothic, quot minus the farm and the forks These Montevidean folks 三九 stony expressions belie a life gripped frozen by accustomed routines So it goes with an old Jewish bachelor who owns an ageing sock factory When his estranged younger brother decides to visit for their mother 三九 s burial, he asks his employee Marta to pose as his wife The resulting encounter creates clumsy silences that are uncomfortably comic Grand Prize, Tokyo Film Festival and FIPRESCI prize from Cannes br 　　這一代的年輕人真係好老成好cool 兩個新導演還不到三十 便已拍出型到飛起玄色到痺的白叟孤单晚境 話說襪廠老闆阿積孤苦孤立 孤单到死 某日飛來鴻雁 巴西的弟弟話來拜訪 他要概况風光 唯有求忠诚下屬瑪泰暫充老婆 兩個名字同樣叫孤獨的六十幾歲人俄然親近 彆扭得不在話下 口若懸河的巴西弟弟一出現 畫面調子大年夜轉彎 三人海邊度假 瑪泰沉睡的神經率先波動 往後發生的事估总估唔到 郭利斯馬基式冰脸诙谐扭橋扭到熱帶南美 玄色照舊輕描淡寫功力同樣崇高崇高 另外一種風情絕對原創 客岁康城驚艷 連奪國際影評人獎及原創觀點大年夜獎 br 　　Source: 二九th HKIFF 二00五 p