厌倦了逼仄脏乱的小公寓正值青春年少的美丽女孩冰通过网络找到一所宽敞阔气且租金极为便宜的大房子事不宜迟她连忙致电屋主预约时间并叫上同公寓好友妮娜随她一同看房虽然妮娜对该房第一印象不佳却无法改变冰的决定不久之后满心欢喜的冰搬入新居谁知从第一天开始便有怪事在身边发生在此之后种种诡异事件交替发生甚至冰的意识也受到侵袭担心好友的安危妮娜赶来冰的身边 只是恐怖事件并未就此告一段落仿佛被诅咒了一般美丽女孩落入充满玄幻和恐怖气息的死亡陷阱之中……
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
