前洛杉矶高级凶案组探员Jesse Stone被派到缅因州靠近海岸的小镇作警长过着相对简单悠闲的生活在犯罪率低下的天堂镇Stone努力想靠醉酒避开刻薄的前妻和新的年轻女友保持安全距离来减少生活中的烦杂但是在当一个死尸冲到海岸和一个高中学生供认自己被不止一个而是几个袭击者强奸后Stone和天堂的居民被陷入混乱中利用在大城市作侦探的经验Stone必须在平静的小镇变为连环杀手游乐场前找出罪犯
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
