平凡小镇富山，蝙蝠年近60的泷岛彻（三浦友和 饰）是一名有着42年驾驶经验的资深电车司机。他保持着35年无故障的记录，蝙蝠一心扑在工作的同时则忽略了与家人的交流。再过一个月泷岛将迎来退休的时刻，他一面计划着退休后和妻子佐和子（余贵美子 饰）的悠闲度假生活，一面又百感交集，恋恋不舍这个奉献毕生的岗位。然而佐和子却向他提出希望重返护士岗位的要求，本就心存芥蒂的二人为此大吵，佐和子更是愤而出走。来到公司，心情烦闷的泷岛又不得不承担起培养新人小田的重任。他始终无法知晓，妻子心中怀有怎样的秘密与感受。退休的日子越来越近，而泷岛夫妇的婚姻似乎走到了尽头……
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回复 :Misaki lives in a rural town situated among lush, green mountains beneath a clear blue sky. Despite graduating from a university in Tokyo, she was unable to find the job she hoped for due to the lack of employment opportunities that befell her generation. Just about everything has gone badly for her and now she is on the verge of turning 40. However, she has dreams of marrying her aging, handicapped mother Mitsuko's care worker, Naoki, who pays visits to their home. Her clandestine meetings with Naoki are one of Misaki's oases from Mitsuko's harsh day-to-day verbal abuse. The other is the bee farm run by her childhood friend Kaori. The honey Kaori diligently works to make is sweet, mild, and soothing. But then Misaki is cruelly betrayed by Naoki. And Kaori abruptly dies. These events drive Misaki's heart to the brink of bursting. "Why did she have to die? "
回复 :哈瓦那（帕特丽夏·阿奎特 Patricia Arquette 饰）和彼得（泰特·多诺万 Tate Donovan 饰） 是一对感情非常要好的恋人，两人在抢劫了一间游乐场后逃回了故乡。他们的故乡是一个民风非常古老而又保守的地方，在那里，法律不值一提，居民们生活信奉的唯一准则就是圣经。在那里，哈瓦那和彼得终于实现了他们的心愿携手步入了婚礼的殿堂，可是婚后没多久，一场可怕的车祸便夺走了彼得的弟弟。根据圣经记载，哈瓦那将再度嫁给彼得年仅十二岁的弟弟西科（约瑟夫·高登-莱维特 Joseph Gordon-Levitt 饰）。哈瓦那决定将曾经抢劫而来的那些赃物物归原主，可是贪婪而又暴力的警探却并不愿意归还她平静的生活。
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)
