故事发生在位于法国富人聚集地的一幢公寓内，玛利亚是公寓的门房，转眼之间，她和身为建筑工人的丈夫约瑟已经在这个与他们的社会地位格格不入的社区内居住了三十年之久了。公寓里人人都喜欢这对善良又热情的夫妻，尽管身份差异巨大，但彼此相处十分快乐融洽。一天，约瑟收到了一封意料之外的来信，在信中，约瑟成为了葡萄牙老家一份丰厚遗产的继承人，而回到故乡生活正是约瑟梦寐以求的事情。好事降临在了玛利亚和约瑟的头上，但公寓内的住户们却忧心忡忡，因为他们舍不得夫妻两人，当然，玛丽和约瑟也舍不得公寓内的一帮老朋友们。

The tragedy and comedy in Carlo's life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his idle existence as an aristocratic doctor, spends his time to enjoying friends and lovers. Until he falls in love. She is a new character in this revolutionary novel. It's a vertiginous passion that goes beyond that past gloominess to reach a new and darker abyss, incest.

When Edward’s search for his birth family takes him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the mountains of northern Portugal, he is excited to meet his long-lost mum and twin brother. Finally, he’ll be able to find out who he is and where he comes from. But nothing is as it seems, and Edward soon discovers that he is bound to them by a monstrous secret. First ...

　　Five women are running an old hotel and trying to save it from inexorable decay. Guests arrive over the course of a weekend: a couple bears the wounds of a long-term misunderstanding; a domineering mother interferes in her daughter’s relationship; two girls try to save their own love story in the face of opposition from a possessive mother. Viver Mal is the reverse shot of Mal Viver, which is screening in the Competition: here, João Canijo reveals everything that was floating in the depth of field in this film’s mirror image. Reality becomes the intertwining and multiplication of different points of view; the intersection between what can be seen and what the eye misses. Like a play of light reflections, Viver Mal is Mal Viver in another dimension. The image is distorted, but at the same time seeks a new definition by relaunching itself into infinity.

导演迈克尔·哈内克凭借本片再度勇夺金棕榈大奖。                                                                      　　本片的两位老戏骨分别是威尼斯影后和戛纳柏林双料影帝。                                                                      　　Anne（埃玛妞·丽娃 Emmanuelle Riva 饰）和Georges（让-路易斯·特林提格南特 Jean-Louis Trintignant 饰）这对老夫妻已经 80多岁了，他们都是退休的，有教养的音乐教师。他们的女儿Eva（伊莎贝尔·于佩尔 Isabelle Huppert 饰）也是一个音乐工作者，目前生活在国外。可是有一天，Anne突然中风，随后偏瘫，卧床不起。而正是从这一天开始，她和乔治斯的爱情，在某种程度上开始了考验......

十七岁的少女马尔塔与失业的父亲和一个人打多份工挣钱养家的母亲住在里斯本郊区的一间公寓里。父亲浑浑噩噩显得有些奇怪，偶尔暴躁易怒，母亲长时间工作疲惫不堪。父母的共同点则是都因为各自的问题忽略了马尔塔，于是少女喜怒无常，常常身体自虐，将情感寄托在笼子里的宠物小鸟身上。父亲马里奥怀着无法排解的失败感，劫持了一个朋友开车载他去海边，后来朋友揍了他几拳扔下四十欧元离开。马里奥在沙滩上睡了一夜，在清晨游了个泳，路过花圃要了点水解渴，然后继续在残破墙根下露宿了一晚。马里奥回到家，妻子却失去了一份工作，马尔塔的小鸟死掉了，家里因为交不起电费而被停电。一切都无可挽回的走向崩溃。