佛利珀韦斯利·斯奈普斯 Wesley Snipes 饰是一名建筑师和妻子德鲁萝内蒂·麦基 Lonette McKee 饰过着非常平静的生活一天佛利珀招到了一名新的助手拥有意大利血统的白人女性安吉安娜贝拉·莎拉 Annabella Sciorra 饰很快的两人就在工作中碰撞出了爱情的火花 佛利珀开始了和安吉的地下恋情佛利珀将这件事情告诉了自己的好友塞勒斯斯派克·李 Spike Lee 饰而安吉也对自己的男友波利坦白了很快这段逾越了伦理界限的感情就被德鲁发现了愤怒的德鲁将佛利珀赶出了家门而佛利珀的父亲也不愿意接纳自己的儿子
In Uruguay, they don#39t say cheese in front of the camera they say whisky Beneath the artificially photographed smiles, however, is a blueprint for the quotSouth American Gothic,quot minus the farm and the forks These Montevidean folks#39 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#39s 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
