穿越苍穹

　　布拉德文斯·沃恩 Vince Vaughn 饰与女友凯特瑞茜·威瑟斯彭 Reese Witherspoon 饰的生活就像普通夫妻一样唯一的不同就是他们未婚也没有孩子然而他们却比一般夫妻要多出一个头疼的问题那就是双方父母均已离异并各过各的于是每年圣诞节小两口便要分别去拜访四位家长实乃分身乏术前两年布拉德和凯特都很侥幸地以公事借口躲过了繁杂的家庭聚会双双飞往热带欢度跨年然而今年却没那么顺利了航班因大雾天气全部取消小两口去不成度假反而还无意被拍到并放上了电视新闻逃离计划泡汤两人只好在一天内奔走于双方父母的圣诞聚会一路上不仅连走带跑四个家庭也没让他们省心哭笑不得的闹剧层出不穷……

　　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