机械师弗兰克杰克·尼克尔森 Jack Nicholson 饰身无分文被洛城附近小镇上的一位希腊店主尼克收留尼克年轻的妻子科拉Jessica Lange 饰引起弗兰克的强烈兴趣科拉亦对酗酒的希腊佬心生厌倦两人很快趁尼克进城时发生了关系并决定私奔但弗兰克的好赌成性迫使计划改变科拉本欲杀死醉酒的尼克但只是将其重伤尼克出院后科拉与弗兰克又生一计并终于得手保险公司因不愿赔偿尼克的意外身亡险遂组织人手证明科拉与弗兰克有罪幸有律师巧借不同保险公司间的厉害冲突使二人得以脱罪弗兰克与科拉虽在狱中互相倾轧但还是走到了一起两人接管小店后的生活平淡无奇直到某天一名男子登门要挟他们…… 本片是詹姆斯·凯恩的原著小说第四次的电影
A young journalist goes deep undercover within a mountain commune and becomes manipulated by a duplicitous cult leader
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
