幽灵情书（粤语）

　　文德斯1995年的纪录片，其实是他在慕尼黑电影学校教学期间鼓励学生们一起跟他玩的纪录片。纪录片献给了德国电影先驱
　　与卢米埃尔几乎在同时发明电影的德国人马可斯兄弟。因为素材少，于是就用默片的方式来搬演。影片前15分钟可以单独成章，是用马克斯女儿的旁白来演出父亲如何发明活动影像。随后才放入当时已白发苍苍的女儿露西的访谈。
　　文德斯还嫌玩得不够，于是把照片里的三兄弟之一和露西的姐姐一起请出来，黑白的他们和彩色的世界。又是一出天使下凡的《柏林苍穹下》，那些漂亮的移动镜头配合了先人抬头观看的黑白画面，说不出的美丽。

比尔（布鲁斯·威利斯 Bruce Willis 饰）是一名心理医生，这个特殊的职业让他接触过许多精神抑郁生活压抑的病人，他们的压力在无形之中也转嫁到了比尔的身上，终于，当病人蜜雪儿（Kathleen Wilhoite 饰）在比尔眼前坠楼身亡后，比尔意识到，休息的时间到了。
　　沮丧的比尔决定去找老友鲍勃（斯科特·巴库拉 Scott Bakula 饰）叙叙旧，不幸的是，在两人见面后没多久，鲍勃便被某个凶徒残忍的谋杀了，丝状可怖。为了查明老友死亡的真相，比尔展开了缜密的调查，在此过程中，一个名叫罗丝（珍·玛奇 Jane March 饰）的神秘女子浮出了水面，然而比尔不知道的是，当他逐步接近真相的同时，危险也在接近着他。

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　　开设在日本的家庭罗曼史有限公司是一家通过角色扮演为客户定制“体验”的公司。在这里，你可以租借到陪伴自己的“父亲”，愿意顶罪的“同事”......公司员工石井裕一在一次次的倾情扮演中，也陷入了对自己职业的沉思。陪伴在身边的人可能是假的，生命中的美好回忆又有几分是真的呢？德国名导赫尔佐格视角独特，打破纪录与非纪录的界线，在演练好的剧本和真实故事的交错之中，观众也不免从电影延伸出对自己现实生活的思考。

　　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.