超凡2022柏林电影节「德国视点」(Perspektive Deutsches Kino) 单元开幕片。The skyscraper on the edge of the forest is known for its carefully selected house community. When a dog disappears, the security officer Anna has to fight the irrational fear of the residents. The utopia with a view of the forest is slowly unravelling.
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回复 :在这部电影中，本宁继续通过两个杀人犯的故事来审视美国文化。埃德·盖恩(Ed Gein)是威斯康星州的一名农民，他在20世纪50年代曾多次谋杀受害者。伯纳黛特·普罗蒂(Bernadette Protti)是一名加州青少年，1984年，她因朋友的侮辱行为捅死了朋友。
回复 :香港曾以滿街霓虹燈聞名世界，卻隨著時代變遷，昔日的燦爛繁華似乎已成往事。妻子難以接受丈夫離世，終日在家整理其遺物。身邊所有人都叫她別再執著，卻屢勸無效。一日，她發現一條開啟亡夫的秘密霓虹燈工場的鎖匙，並在那裡遇見他的青年徒弟，得悉亡夫一直希望重造一個已拆除的神秘霓虹燈牌。盼能完成其遺願的妻子，在過程中逐漸了解每個昔日燈牌的故事。張艾嘉、任達華相隔39年後再度再合作，攜手新演員周漢寧、蔡思韵，講述一段屬於香港的獨特歷史。片中的霓虹燈與最近的清拆工程不謀而合。不同的意境符號貫穿全片，暗喻著這座城市之餘，也對照著力挽狂瀾的香港人，正如導演所言：雖然是空執著，然而，人生也許要有執著才有重量。
回复 :In Uruguay, they don't say cheese in front of the camera - they say whisky. Beneath the artificially photographed smiles, however, is a blueprint for the "South American Gothic," minus the farm and the forks. These Montevidean folks' 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's 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)