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(lǎo )成好cool，兩個新導演還不(🗂)到三十(✡)，便(❄)已拍出型(🧑)到飛(🍝)起黑(hēi )色到痺的老人寂寞晚境(🈁)。話(huà )說(shuō )襪廠老闆阿(😛)積孤家寡人，寂(jì )寞到死(sǐ )，一(yī )天飛(💺)來鴻雁，巴西的弟弟(🗝)話來拜(bài )訪。他要表面風光，唯有求忠厚(hòu )下屬瑪(🤱)泰暫充(chōng )(🚲)老(lǎo )婆。兩個(🎙)名(míng )字同樣(👰)叫孤獨的六(liù )十幾(⚡)歲人忽然親近，彆扭得不在(🖱)話(huà )下(xià )。口若懸河(hé )的巴(bā )西弟弟(dì )一出現，畫面調子大轉彎(❎)。三(👼)人(rén )海(hǎi )邊(biān )度假，瑪泰沉睡的(de )神(🥚)經率(🐉)先波動，往後發生(😐)的事(shì )(🍙)估(📲)都估唔到。郭利斯馬(㊙)基式冷(📈)面幽(👲)默扭橋(⏺)扭(☔)到(dào )熱帶南美，黑(hēi )色照舊(jiù )輕描淡(🕝)寫(xiě )功力同樣(👃)高超，另一種風情絕對(duì )(😱)原創。去(qù )年康城驚艷，連(😣)奪(duó )國際(jì )影評人(🎀)獎(🔡)及原創(chuàng )觀點大獎(jiǎng )。
　(🔖)　(⏹)Source: 29th HKIFF (2005)