荷兰人

　　东京一隅，温柔善良的高野吟子（吉永小百合 饰）独自打理着去世丈夫留下来的药店。过去的20年里，她和婆婆、女儿小春（蒼井優 饰）住在一起，虽颇多艰辛，但日子平淡幸福。如今，女儿将要嫁作人妻，吟子喜悦之余仍不免有所忧虑。原来在丈夫13周年忌辰上，她的弟弟铁郎（笑福亭鹤瓶 饰）醉酒胡闹，惹得亲朋不快。吟子和哥哥庄平（小林稔侍 饰）有意瞒着弟弟，然而得到消息的铁郎依旧欢喜前来，而且照例醉酒闹事。铁郎的举动不仅让家人颜面尽失，也影响了小春的婚姻。此后的日子里，这个年过半百却总也长不大的弟弟成为了姐姐久久无法割舍的牵绊……
　　本片为日本国宝级导演山田洋次向市川昆致敬之作，受邀参加第60届柏林影展，并荣获电影节特别奖。

　　Marg Duffield (Lee Remick) is the Maine wife of Al (Joseph Sommer) whose daughter Peg (Marlee Matlin) is deaf. Peg's husband is killed in a car accident on the way to visit the Maine house, and the Duffield's take in Peg's six year old daughter, Lisa, while Peg recovers. Since Lisa is a speaking child, Marg thinks of her the way she wanted Peg to be, and seeks guardian custody.
　　Remick's role is secondary to Matlin's, though she is presented as a tragic figure, particularly as Al refuses to help her plan to gain Lisa. Peg's deafness is said to be from a childhood case of spinal meningitis, and the teleplay by Louisa Burns-Bisogno, with story by Louisa and Tom Bisogno, reduces Remick to a textbook mother who is self-hating from guilt and therefore cannot love her own daughter. In a memorable scene, Peg angrily signs her exit to Marg, since Marg has refused to learn sign language, though Peg has learned to speak for her mother.
　　The treatment uses the Tennesee Williams play, The Glass Menagerie, for therapy, to help Peg overcome her grief and also Marg `lose her unicorn horn' and embrace her daughter. Whilst Peg choosing to act in this play may seem an odd choice for someone grieving, what is more noticable is that Matlin is far too more glamourous to be believable as Laura. The Bisogno's include Michael O'Keefe as Dan, Peg's deceased husband's best friend and director of Actors Theatre for the Deaf, to offer Peg a new romantic interest, and thankfully she rebukes his protestations of love. Although his opinion may be influenced by his `crush', Dan tells Peg that being different is better than being normal, since the normal ones are as `common as weeds'. This philosophy reads as rather Nietzschean, on the level of artists not being restricted to the common moral code.
　　Director Karen Arthur either has those signing also speaking or those signing being translated for the audience, though in one scene the sound of lapping waves drowns out the dialogue between Dan and Peg. She also gives Matlin some good moments, one being her scream of horror when she hears the news of the death of her husband, and another when she chases Remick down a flight of steps, hitting her.