安妮·瑞德饰演60多岁的母亲may,午夜在伦敦的女儿Paula的住处和丹尼尔·克雷格饰演的女儿的男朋友发生了一场奇怪的忘年恋情。当女儿发现自己的男朋友和自己的母亲竟然发生了不寻常的关系时,午夜一场家庭战争就开始了!母亲最后会做出什么样的抉择呢?
安妮·瑞德饰演60多岁的母亲may,午夜在伦敦的女儿Paula的住处和丹尼尔·克雷格饰演的女儿的男朋友发生了一场奇怪的忘年恋情。当女儿发现自己的男朋友和自己的母亲竟然发生了不寻常的关系时,午夜一场家庭战争就开始了!母亲最后会做出什么样的抉择呢?
回复 :In Uruguay, they don't say cheese in front of the camera - they say whisky. Beneath the artificially photographed smiles, however, is a blueprint for the "South American Gothic," minus the farm and the forks. These Montevidean folks' 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'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.這一代的年輕人真係好老成好cool,兩個新導演還不到三十,便已拍出型到飛起黑色到痺的老人寂寞晚境。話說襪廠老闆阿積孤家寡人,寂寞到死,一天飛來鴻雁,巴西的弟弟話來拜訪。他要表面風光,唯有求忠厚下屬瑪泰暫充老婆。兩個名字同樣叫孤獨的六十幾歲人忽然親近,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,往後發生的事估都估唔到。郭利斯馬基式冷面幽默扭橋扭到熱帶南美,黑色照舊輕描淡寫功力同樣高超,另一種風情絕對原創。去年康城驚艷,連奪國際影評人獎及原創觀點大獎。Source: 29th HKIFF (2005)
回复 :Mavie is 27 years old and has just moved to the French capital from the provinces. She dreams of a future as a writer but is plagued by doubt and uncertainty. 76-year-old misanthrope Georges runs a bookshop in Paris – or has he merely been forced to take refuge there to escape his past? These are two peculiar creatures indeed. Georges is cynical and no longer expects much from life, while Mavie is still brimming with expectation. Yet something magical happens between them, until Georges' dark secret suddenly catches up with him – and Mavie is caught up in something very different...Director Elise Girard succeeds in making a dreamlike film full of surprising absurdities. It’s not just love that appears out of the blue for the two protagonists, but also some quite literal strange birds. Girard depicts love beyond the barriers of age in a way that is both unexpected and moving, romantic instead of physical, timeless instead of fashionable. The film reminds us of the multifaceted nature of love as well as how fleeting it can be, existing not yesterday or tomorrow but above all in the present.
回复 :由松竹映像、富士映画联合出品,故事原形是1938年发生的“冈山事件”,当时冈山县津山市的苫田郡西加茂村22岁的青年都井睦雄,以火药枪、武士刀不到两个小时的时间内杀死三十人,最后潜逃深山开枪自杀人。创造了在极短时间内大量杀人,日本乃至全世界的犯罪记录。