欲海花

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.

生活残骸

　　女孩艾米（艾米·舒默 Amy Schumer 饰），从小被父亲教导婚姻不现实，一夫一妻不现实，长大后热衷泡吧，一直与不同男人约会却从不恋爱。一天，身为男性杂志编辑的她，前去采访一位专为运动员治疗运动损伤的医生亚伦（比尔·哈德尔 Bill Hader 饰），不料遇见了可能终结她完美单身生活的真命天子。　　本片由女主角艾米·舒默编剧，根据她本人的真实经历改编。

布赖顿硬糖

　　英国海滨小镇布赖顿，凯特斯和卡林奥里两大黑帮组织盘踞于此，互相角力，此消彼长。某夜，凯特斯被对头当街杀害，视老大如亲父的平基（Sam Riley 饰）目睹了凶案的全过程，于是想参与者之一的福瑞德（Sean Harris 饰）展开追杀。福瑞德虽死，却留下一堆的麻烦，他生前为了躲避跟踪曾某餐馆女侍应生罗丝（Andrea Riseborough 饰），并与之留下合影。为了销毁证据，平基开始接近这名单纯的女孩，而罗丝也渐渐爱上了帅气冷酷的平基。与此同时，凯特斯的死亡也让布赖顿的黑帮势力失衡，一方面卡林奥里迅速扩张，一方面本帮内部展开权力争夺，平基深陷其中无法自拔……　　本片根据Graham Greene 的小说改编。

不伦之恋

 对于音乐家雷米（帕特里克·迪瓦尔 Patrick Dewaere 饰）来说，日子变得越来越不好过，不仅仅是职业上的停滞不前，妻子一成不变的容颜和乏味的婚姻生活也让他几近抓狂。就在这个节骨眼上，妻子车祸身亡的消息让雷米感到震惊却又有一丝解脱，而妻子留下的14岁的继女玛丽安（阿里尔·贝西 Ariel Besse 饰）也成为了一个包袱。玛丽安的生父想夺回玛丽安的抚养权，没想到，小小的玛丽安却更愿意和继父生活在一起。同一屋檐下，这对没有血缘关系的“父女”之间的情感变得朦胧而又暧昧。对于玛丽安的火热表白，雷米从最初的果断拒绝到之后的欲拒还迎，他能否守住伦理道德的最后一条底线呢？

继女2024

喷火女郎

　　叉烧（郑丹瑞 饰）是一个不务正业的小青年，整体装神弄鬼骗钱。一天，叉烧的一个租客——在夜总会当妈妈桑的大B（叶德娴 饰）的家里来了一个客人，她美丽的外甥女云云（邱淑贞 饰）。大B用尽千方百计将美丽的云云哄到夜总会当舞女，想着从她身上大赚一笔。一个晚上，黑社会老大炮哥到夜 总会消遣时遇到了云云，炮哥垂涎她的美色，找人把云云捉走了。怎知谁也料不到云云这个弱女子竟然拥有超能力——会喷火，关键时候她用自己的超能力脱身了。不久叉烧就得知了云云的这个本领，于是，一个坏主意计上心头……