法國性奴

　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.

 來自與世隔絕的宗教社區的婦女們努力使她們的現實與她們的信仰相協調。通過背景故事，我們看到一個婦女社區聚集在一起，研究如何共同前進，為她們自己和她們的孩子建立一個更美好的世界。要么留下來戰斗，要么離開。她們不會什么都不做。

馬諾哈拉·K在13歲時就憑借在影片《鐵路少年》中的出色表演榮獲印度國家電影獎最佳兒童演員獎。如今，二十出頭的馬諾哈拉初執導筒，將女作家索尼婭·S的獲獎自傳小說搬上銀幕，講述了一個白化病女孩的成長之路。片中，來自貧困家庭的索尼婭因為白化病在學校受到歧視和敵意，父親置若罔聞、母親有心但無力，她只能依靠自己。導演并沒有向索尼婭投去同情目光，而是帶著一定距離感去呈現她的處境，成功塑造了一個勇敢、樂天的女孩如何接納自己并讓白化病這個“缺點”成為特點。

　　一個陷入瓶頸期的女演員，一個北京胡同孤僻老炮。一個姥姥帶大的熊孩子，一個失敗中年男人。這分別來自北漂，留守，離異，孤寡的四個人因為一場騙局被迫組成臨時的完整家庭。自此上演一段雞飛狗跳、笑淚交織的人間悲喜劇。他們在理想與現實中困頓，在希望與孤寂里掙扎。在這臨時的親情里回望各自真正的血緣。而在歡聲笑語的身后，又有多少不為人知的傷心往事..