蟾蜍之路

　　这部电影将写实与科幻合而为一。一种传染性性疾病STBO正在国内蔓延，它通过没有感情的性活动传播。　　小偷马克和汉斯欠一个美国女人一笔钱，她限他们两个星期还。他们打算去偷一种专治类似艾滋病的药剂，然后高价转卖。于是他们雇来了亚力克斯，一个正在跟16岁女友丽莎分手的青年。但在计划实施之前，他迷恋上了马克的情妇安娜。丽莎却并没有死心，在他们动手那天她来到了巴黎，使得事情更加复杂化……　　当然，这是个悲剧。Love that burns fast but lasts forever.　　这是导演Leos Carax继《男孩遇见女孩》后的第二部作品，继续他对青春和孤独等题材的关注，也就是在此片的五年之后诞生了影史经典之作——《新桥恋人》。

　　在一次例行的夜间巡逻，警察朱莉和西蒙不慎伤了一个副局长的儿子，在昏迷状态，没有明显的理由下，他暴力的杀死了他们的同事，面对纪律处分，他们得不到上级的支持，在为他们的报告进行调查的过程中，发现在这个年轻人的房子有一个奇怪的药物。他们决定自己进行调查，发现一个新的网络化制造贩卖非法毒品的组织……

　　环卫公司垃圾车驾驶员尼卡德（Matti Pellonpää 饰）的老同事计划筹资组建自己的环卫公司，邀请尼卡德技术入股，但老同事不久急病突发身亡，尼卡德的生活重回一潭死水状态。尼卡德心有不甘借酒滋事，在被拘留的时候结识日后的同事米卡拉。米卡拉偶而会不识趣的妨碍尼卡德暗地追求超市售货员伊罗娜（Kati Outinen 饰），但他仍是尼卡德最可依赖的朋友。伊罗娜为报复超市经理偷走了钱盒，尼卡德帮助她找到服装店的新工作，服装店经理夹到尼卡德与伊罗娜的关系中间，但尼卡德最终夺回了自己的爱人。　　本片获1987年芬兰电影尤西奖最佳影片奖。是导演郭立斯马基（Aki Kaurismäki）无产阶级三部曲的第一部。

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.