河粉的滋味

麻梨子．鮑勃里克 Mariko BOBRIK

波蘭、德國 Poland, Germany | 2019 | DCP | Color | 84min

個性溫和的越南籍廚師阿龍，與他的十歲女兒瑪雅在華沙相依為命，不擅以言語表達愛的他，每天替女兒準備便當、燙洗衣物。然而，身處叛逆期女兒的眼中，看待這一切不但不領情，過於「越南」式的生活方式讓她不太自在。阿龍的拿手菜是越南河粉，是餐廳的人氣餐點，但餐廳營運不佳必須易主，換人接手後，波蘭籍老闆則希望更換菜單，要求阿龍開始製作生魚片。另一方面，女兒瑪雅對於傳統越南文化一直抗拒，念念不忘已過世的波蘭籍母親，甚至擔心父親與鄰居展開新戀情，眼見父女關係漸行漸遠，阿龍是否能藉著美味的拿手菜挽回女兒的心？ 波蘭的亞洲餐館大部分是以越南料理混合泰式、中式元素，多為越南人所經營，與其他歐洲國家相比，越南人占波蘭新移民族群的絕大多數。日本女導演麻梨子．鮑勃里克在洛茲就讀電影學院時，特別觀察到此現象，選擇越南河粉為題，因聯想到日本拉麵的療癒，第一部長片因此誕生。 Long is a gentle Vietnamese chef who lives in Warsaw with his precocious ten-year-old daughter named Maja. He works in a restaurant where his signature Pho dish is popular but when his boss sells the place to an ambitious developer who wants to serve different types of Asian food, Long has to adapt. Meanwhile, Maja clings to the memory of her Polish mother who passed away. She is afraid her father is forgetting her mother and looking at a replacement in a pretty neighbor who lives in the building across from theirs. As Long struggles to acclimate to new demands, he misses signs of his daughter's worries but Maja's rebelliousness and their closeness soon pushes him to change.