观察者

等待方舟

　　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.

要地球倒转

　　查理的前妻失踪了，于是他去了她长大的地方，一个位于西部的乡村城镇寻找她。 但是，令人惊讶的是，没有人知道她或她亲戚的所在。 然后他又遇到外星人，但是当他联系联邦调查局时，并没有人相信他。 他只好将故事登报，并随即受到了外星人的追杀。

六百英里

　　亚利桑那州的枪枝商店内，白人男孩负责买枪，再交由开卡车的墨西哥少年穿越美墨边境，运到贩毒大本营西纳洛亚。毒枭媲美军队的强大火力，拜美国松散的枪械管制之赐。少年工作如常，浑然不觉已被资深探员汉克盯上，但正当汉克准备逮捕他们时，却反遭撂倒沦为人质。不知所措的墨西哥少年，竟决定带他回墨西哥。分属对立阵营的两人，就此命运紧紧相连，开向未知。　　导演加布里埃尔·利普斯坦获第65届柏林电影节最佳处女作奖。

谁在战斗中闪耀

一家人面对13岁的贝尔蒂尔（Bertille）未确诊的病症时陷入挣扎。姐姐玛丽昂（Marion）在一段感情中找到慰藉。新的诊断改变了他们的未来，为贝尔蒂尔和她的家人带来了希望和继续前行的可能性。

炸掉银行经理

　　卡洛斯在一家银行支行当总经理，最近他正和妻子玛尔塔闹别扭。风和日丽的一天，他送两个孩子马科斯和莎拉上学，却发生了改变他人生命运的事。崭新的汽车上莫名其妙地出现一部手机，一个陌生男人打来电话，号称卡洛斯的车里被安置了一颗炸弹。而恰在此时，一个神秘的黑衣摩的男尾随而至。这是一个恶作剧，还是真实的绑架勒索？事情的缘起何故，卡洛斯一家命运又该如何？这部西班牙电影将为你呈现一百分钟的惊心动魄……

老板和小可爱