受经济危机影响，经营迪斯科的外山正道（绪形拳 饰）欠下黑帮野崎组巨额贷款。其妻（多岐川裕美 饰）因被催讨债务的黑帮分子强奸，愤而自杀。外山曾许诺在妻子生日当天买下价值495万日元的猫眼钻石作为生日礼物，于是他铤而走险，劫持野崎组500万日元履行诺言。与此同时，珠宝店集结了5个经历各异的女人：受资金困扰的健身俱乐部老板阿兰（余贵美子 饰）、目睹阿兰购买枪支并尾随而来的早纪（夏川结衣 饰）、丈夫出轨而想取下戒指的志保（西山由海 饰）、与珠宝店劫匪串通的女店员千寻（喜多岛舞 饰）以及身着水手服自称17岁的站街妓小百合（大竹忍 饰）。野崎组•中岛组小弟携女友抢劫珠宝店，却不曾想阿兰坐收渔利，失意的女人们随其逃出，为找回猫眼石的外山紧随其后。而闻听风声的黑帮亦磨刀霍霍，展开追逐……
孙艺心
回复 :Brief Meetings is about a love triangle between three very different people. Nadia, a country girl, falls in love with Maskim, a roaming guitar playing geologist, and in her search for him she ends up working for Valentina, his long-distance, bureaucrat wife. Nadia begins to work as a maid for Valentina, but as they spend time together they have flashbacks to their brief meetings with Maskim. These flashbacks occur throughout the film and both Valentina and Nadia have them. Finally news arrives of Maskim's return to Valentina. On the day of his return Nadia cooks a meal for them both and leaves before they arrive, Valentina never knew of Nadia's encounters with Maskim, and Maskim will never know of Nadia's time with Valentina.
萧萧
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)
羽田健太郎
回复 :汤姆．伯兰吉尔监制主演的电视电影，题材比较冷僻，但导演克雷格．巴克莱仍然掌握住这个真实故事所具有的戏剧潜力，一方面拍出宗教族群的特殊人际关系，也适度表现了谋杀故事的神秘惊险气氛。故事描述一名摩门教的独自修行信徒，发现了西部教会的领导人布里格姆杨和其他长老将会被敌人阴谋杀害，于是尽一己之力来保护他们的生命。主演过不少宗教巨片的查尔顿．赫斯登以七十二岁的高龄演出摩门教的领袖，六十七岁的詹姆斯．科伯恩则饰演其中一名长老。
