讲述了大庆从自暴自弃到励志蜕变的过程女友在金店工作大庆来到金店门口想给女友一个生日惊喜却意外撞到女友和有钱人的暧昧纠缠大庆明白了一切原本以为单纯的爱情却被现实狠狠打了一巴掌大庆变得颓废酗酒成瘾醉醺醺的大庆在酒吧的门口上演一幕喜剧酒吧买醉的大庆述说着自己的心伤一首味道唱出来多少人的伤心一首歌引起酒吧老板小玉赏识被生活所迫的大庆选择接受酒吧歌手的工作,同时两人展开了甜蜜的爱恋却因此得罪了酒吧经理不幸的是小玉的身体却一天不如一天
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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
