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　　一位报社编辑每晚会在广播节目中讲一些报纸故事这次他讲的故事是一位警探虽然深爱着妻子和儿子却和一个交际花有染一天他俩将车停在偏远的路边正巧目击了一起谋杀案警探由于做贼心虚没有去抓杀人嫌犯也没有报警后来警局让他负责这个案子她发现他只有自己直面作证才能抓住杀人嫌犯也才能不然无辜的人蒙冤

　　侩子手是西班牙写实主义大师贝尔兰加的巅峰之作以辛辣的笔调描写了一个连苍蝇都不敢打的青年人为生活所迫竟当上刽子手的故事影片虽在如今的各大西班牙经典影片榜单上名列前茅但由于推出时正处于弗朗哥黑暗时期长时间没有得到人们的认可

　　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