金瓶风月

　　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.

人人都中头奖，难道人人都想中头奖？九十年代伊拉克经历军事及经济制裁，独裁者萨达姆无惧动乱，勒令全国为自己庆祝生日。九岁女孩「喜获头奖」成为学校代表，被迫接下为总统炮制生日蛋糕的国家级重任。然而通货膨胀、物资匮乏，鸡蛋面粉都是奢侈品，女孩带着宠物公鸡，从沼泽向城市出发搜罗食材，完成这项国家交给她的任务！首有伊拉克电影进军戛纳，编导借小女孩充满稚气却坚韧的目光，展现伊拉克从未被记录过的一面，献给在战乱下仍能找到爱与友谊的小孩。戛纳电影节金摄像机最佳首作。

　　影片故事讲述一名父亲倾尽所有去保护自己的女儿。

　　位于韩国某山区的智翼村，是一座号称零犯罪村的旅游胜地。每到假期或周末，全国各地的游客云集于此，享受难得的快乐生活。为了吸引更多的游客，智翼村相继开发了高尔夫球场合周末农场，为此砍伐了大量的原始丛林。野生动物的生存环境遭到破坏，加上偷猎者的侵扰，野猪数量急剧减少。为了生存，野猪开始挖掘人类的坟墓，啃噬尸体，由此对人肉产生了浓厚的兴趣。　　某天，村中一名猎人孙女的尸体被人发现，她的尸体破碎不堪，只留下头颅。经法医鉴定和老猎人的观察，这起惨案系一头是人野猪所为。在此之后，武装精良的猎人们来到智翼村，人兽的战争渐次白热化……