In Uruguay, they dont 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 mothers 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. 　　这一代的年轻人真系好老成好cool，两个新导演还不到三十，便已拍出型到飞起黑色到痹的老人寂寞晚境。话说袜厂老板阿积孤家寡人，寂寞到死，一天飞来鸿雁，巴西的弟弟话来拜访。他要表面风光，唯有求忠厚下属玛泰暂充老婆。两个名字同样叫孤独的六十几岁人忽然亲近，别扭得不在话下。口若悬河的巴西弟弟一出现，画面调子大转弯。三人海边度假，玛泰沉睡的神经率先波动，往後发生的事估都估唔到。郭利斯马基式冷面幽默扭桥扭到热带南美，黑色照旧轻描淡写功力同样高超，另一种风情绝对原创。去年康城惊艳，连夺国际影评人奖及原创观点大奖。 　　Source: 29th HKIFF (2005)