考试过关的艺术

　　一对即将分离的情侣彼此取暖；一位老妇人沉浸在过往爱情岁月；一对玩伴畅想移民美国成为职业棒球球员在古巴内陆城市圣安东尼奥德洛斯巴尼奥斯时间似乎停滞不前三组人物构成的情感世界在这里流动展开意大利导演托马索·桑坦博吉奥在这部影片中倾诉自己对古巴社会中的爱情和离别的思考影片中三组人物不仅是导演对过去老妇人现在恋人将来玩伴的真诚思考同时也是他对古巴社会图景的再现导演用海浪的声音凸显陆地与海洋的关系并使用黑白影像来颠覆人们对五彩斑斓的古巴的认知影片入围第80届威尼斯电影节威尼斯日平行单元

　　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