茅趸王

　　入围2020年华沙电影节自由精神单元
　　It all starts trivially – with a quarrel between a young married couple. The spouses are waiting for their first baby which is due very soon. Every day the situation is heating up. There comes a point when the main character – Dastan – can no longer stand the constant pressure from his wife. He decides to escape, just for one day, to go on a fishing trip with two friends. The future father, the unlucky businessman and the local police officer plan to get away from it all and just focus on fishing. However, a series of unforeseen events, turns their trip into a wild Tarantino-esque rollercoaster. A dynamic, ironic and funny story about real male bonding.

　　影片讲述了师徒四人在西行的路上，白骨精（巩俐 饰）为夺唐僧（冯绍峰 饰）而巧设圈套，被孙悟空（郭富城 饰）识破，屡次受挫。唐僧却误会孙悟空滥杀无辜，将其逐出师门。白骨精趁虚而入，掳走唐僧。悟空闻讯前往营救，彻底击溃白骨精。师徒冰释前嫌，重新上路。

　　本故事是由三位从小玩大的好朋，一个武痴，一个老千及一个富商，三人虽有如生死之交，但各人性格际遇都不同，导致今日一班后背的误解，发生这过搅笑的故事。

　　祥（王晶 饰）天赋异品，和他的二叔（林正英 饰）、三叔（吴孟达 饰）都是茅山赌术弟子，祥和三叔丈着有点小聪明开了一间赌博公司，赌徒有什么疑难问题都可以上来请教。香港女赌神高少少（吴君如 饰）被泰国赌王乃猜与其手下女巫合谋害死，化成冤魂。高少少的冤魂不堪枉死，前来找祥替她报仇，祥抵不住她的缠绕，答应替她报仇。高少少的妹妹高豆豆（邱淑贞 饰）也因心想为姐姐报仇而结识了祥，两人心生倾慕。
　　二叔可怜高少少惨死，也出山和祥、三叔一起挑战泰国赌王乃猜，茅山赌术和泰国巫术之战打响了。

　　朱妮（洛丽泰·扬 Loretta Young 饰）是美国最著名的“老姑娘”，一次偶然中，她和一位名叫提摩西（雷·米兰德 Ray Milland 饰）的男子搭乘同一辆车回城，没想到被记者拍到了，记者将他两误认为了夫妻，在报纸上大肆报道，很快便引起了轰动。
　　朱妮和提摩西发现，这一误会反而给他们带来了意料之外的福利，于是决定假扮夫妻维持这个谎言，可是，知道他们真正的生活在一起后才发现，两个人无论是生活习惯还是个性上都矛盾多多，在一次又一次的摩擦和争吵中，朱妮和提摩西都感到对方令自己难以忍受，可如今他们早已骑虎难下，两人该如何处理这段斩不断理还乱的关系呢？

　　《果酱短片集》由七位日本影坛一线导演拍摄而成，共七部短片。《地狱使者》由北村龙平导演，被称为“The messenger”的黑衣女子神代忧子（鱼谷佳苗饰）出现在报废的大厦房间时，独身强盗权藤（北村一辉饰）的命运由此受到了冲击，极富魔幻色彩；《正义》行定勋导演描写一个正值青春期的男生东条（妻夫木聪饰）被操场上体育课的女生所吸引的故事；《阿里塔》由岩井俊二导演，讲述女孩（广末凉子饰）跟自己幻想出来的“阿里塔”之间的成长故事；以及筱原哲雄执导的《剑玉》、坂田让治导演的《冰冻》、堤辛彦导演的《羊栖菜》和望月六郎导演的《潘朵拉》。
　　七部短片各自取材编排，情节各异。也有众多日本著名演员参演，共同演绎这七部电影，七处生活。

　　经营着一家五金店的亚当（亚历克•鲍德温 Alec Baldwin 饰）与芭芭拉（吉娜•戴维斯 Geena Davis 饰）夫妻俩非常恩爱，两人虽然没有孩子，但把所有对彼此的爱都倾注在装扮自己的家上。这天夫妻俩出行时发生车祸，双双殒命。成为鬼魂的两夫妻不忍离开自己的家，但阴阳相隔他们只能眼睁睁看的自己的家中搬来了新主人。入住的迪兹与查尔斯一家将夫妻俩的房子大肆改造，亚当和芭芭拉想出闹鬼招数试图吓走迪兹一家却不起作用，反被迪兹喜爱呆在黑暗中的怪异女儿莉迪亚（薇诺娜•瑞德 Winona Ryder 饰）看破，做鬼也难得尊严。无计可施的夫妻俩按照亡灵手册指引，拜托流离于阴间主流之外的大法师“甲壳虫汁”（迈克尔•基顿 Michael Keaton 饰）帮助他们夺回自己的家……

聚集了法国单口喜剧界顶尖的喜剧演员，将幽默短剧和妙语连珠的单口喜剧现场结合在一起，带领我们探索疫情期间的生活。

　　In this Tony Award-winning musical by Stephen Sondheim, several fairy tale characters learn the hard way that the 'Happily Ever After' they sought isn't necessarily so happy after all.

　　在《奇奇与蒂蒂：救援突击队》电视动画结束30年后，奇奇成为了一个过着枯燥生活的保险业务员，蒂蒂则动了CGI手术让自己变成时下的3D动画造型，到处参加影迷活动回味着往日的辉煌；就在此时，针对动画人物的绑架事件接二连三的发生，当受害者中出现昔日同伴的名字时，奇奇与蒂蒂阔别多年的联手，试图找出真相与挽回破裂多年的友情。

　　表情丰富的郑满堂（王喜 饰）利用自身特点，成立了情感陪护公司，专门为那些需要带动情绪的场合提供哭和笑的服务。美丽、睿智的莎莎（萧蔷 饰）因为不想继续只恋爱、不结婚的生活，毅然决定离开男友兼上司汤永孝，从此恢复了单身生活。
　　不幸的是郑满堂因为被打，自己的面部神经失去知觉，一段时间内不能再做出哭和笑的表情了，而且恢复的时间无法预料。此时他爱慕虚荣的女友丽丽（柳岩 饰）恰在此时提出了分手。他在人生最低谷的时候遇到了莎莎，随着两人的交往，莎莎对满堂的印象越来越好。在莎莎和好朋友们的帮助下，满堂恢复了自信，最终两人走到了一起……

　　Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.
　　Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years) obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work Manhattan move Europe trip her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)
　　As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.
　　The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).
　　Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.