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火车司机日记

　　每个火车司机在职业生涯中会撞死20多人，这些死者通常是因为寻死、失误、酒醉或仅仅是一不小心而丧生。伊利亚是一名即将退休的火车司机，他共撞死了28人。他19岁的养子西玛继承了他的工作，西玛非常担心自己也会撞死人，而老司机们都安慰他说，一周内就会发生，但是几周过去后，没有发生一起撞人事故，而这也使得他精神极度紧绷。伊利亚为了帮助他，找到了许多想要自杀的人，让他们跳到车轨上自杀，但是最终这些人都放弃了自杀的念头。无奈之下，伊利亚自己躺在了车轨上想用自身的死来拯救西玛…

巴勒斯坦36

　　尤瑟夫每天都往返于他的农耕村庄巴斯玛和他在耶路撒冷城里的工作之间，满怀热情地努力在瞬息万变的现代世界中寻找自己的位置。他年轻而躁动，更渴望摆脱乡村生活的束缚，而不是被卷入其中的种种烦恼。尤瑟夫的故事与年轻寡妇拉巴布和她的女儿阿芙拉、粗犷的领袖哈立德、鞋匠兼当地神父卡里姆的儿子以及活力四射的都市人胡卢德和她的商人丈夫阿明的故事交织在一起。

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.

雨和闪电的气息

　　改編自著名推理作家南希．皮卡德於《紐約時報》的暢銷同名小說　　過往的父母雙屍命案,因為殺人兇手出獄而再度成為喬蒂的噩夢,她被迫再次審視那道往日的傷痕,並且身不由己地反覆被仇恨啃噬…而家族秘辛也隨著時間過去,重新露出面目,要讓所有人都付出代價…。

蒙特利尔，我的美人

53岁华裔移民凤霞（陈冲 饰）在加拿大蒙特利尔已经生活了大半辈子，人生被“妻子、母亲、移民”的身份牢牢捆绑：一段早已失去爱意的婚姻、需要照料的家庭、中西文化的夹缝，让她活成了别人期待的样子，也压抑了真实的自我。直到她遇见充满活力的年轻魁北克女孩卡米尔（夏洛特·奥宾 饰），一段意外的亲密关系唤醒了她埋藏多年的欲望与渴望。凤霞被迫直面内心的渴望，在家庭责任与自我解放、传统束缚与自由人生之间，做出艰难却决绝的选择，完成一场迟来的中年觉醒与自我救赎。

爱情抓马

 婚礼前几天，一对情侣无意中发现彼此的秘密，亲密关系面临考验，令结婚计划骤然生变。暗黑秘密如何一发不可收拾？各种反应又引致怎样翻天覆地的后果？原定又浪漫又幸福的结婚计划，还可以进行吗？

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