被女婿迷住的丈母娘

　　20世纪末，波黑战火笼罩的巴尔干地区。聋哑少女安吉尔（罗茜·戴伊 Rosie Day 饰）目睹了亲人邻居被武装分子残忍杀害的一幕，在此之后她也失去自由，与数名同龄女孩被掳至暴徒维克托（凯文·霍华斯 Kevin Howarth 饰）所盘踞的地狱之所。女孩们被迫沦为性奴，饱受摧残与折磨，生命卑微有如在暴风雨中摇曳的烛火。身处无声世界的安吉尔似乎得到上天微薄的怜惜，她每天的工作便是穿梭于各个房间，为女孩们擦拭血迹，注射药物，缓解疼痛，小小年纪却见识了人世间最残酷的景象。惨无人道且防守严密的人间炼狱，安吉尔决定带着姐妹们逃出生天。当杀母仇人格伦突然来到此地，一切走向失控的边缘……　　本片荣获2013年葡萄牙国际奇幻电影节影评人选择奖。

　　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.

　　突尼斯导演考塞尔·本·哈尼亚将把巴勒斯坦六岁女童欣德·拉贾布的悲剧搬上银幕。2024年1月29日，欣德乘坐的车辆在加沙遭以色列军队袭击，她被困车中通过电话绝望求救，12天后被发现与家人一同遇难。影片将追溯这通生死未卜的求救通话背后，一个幼小生命在战争废墟中的最后时刻。                        

　　一群朋友计划离开城市去海边度过一个轻松的周末，但事情发生了变化，一个年轻女子在一个偏僻岛屿的岸边向他们挥手求助。伸手救援便是致命的危险，他们不顾一切要逃离小岛。

打破白娘子传说的固有框架，以许仕林后人许博森的现代视角切入，将千年神话与当代青年的成长、抉择结合，把 “救母” 而非 “爱情” 作为核心主线，赋予经典故事全新的情感内核与现实思考。

　　五年前，一系列模仿名画场景的连环杀人案轰动纽约城，警探斯坦（Willem Dafoe 饰）受命调查此案，然而却迟迟没有进展，令其饱受舆论压力。斯坦以少女克莉斯特（Samantha MacIvor 饰）作诱饵吸引凶手，虽然成功击毙嫌疑犯艾迪，却也导致克莉斯特惨遭杀害。　　艾迪一案使斯坦得到警署嘉奖，顺利升职，不过他的心中始终对遇害少女怀有愧疚，并且此案背后似乎另有隐情。心中承受巨大内疚之情的斯坦沉溺酒精，愈加孤僻。五年后，类似案件再次出现，凶手似乎有意以斯坦为目标发出赤裸裸的挑战。斯坦不仅要面对这个狡猾且智商极高的对手，更要面对长久以来困扰自己的心魔……