身体的灵犀

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.

鬼迷藏

新外星人

　　一个外星人家庭在不幸意外地被美国探测太空船携回地球，他们在一阵混乱中冲出太空总署逃向沙漠，但小外星人麦克与家人失散，溜上了不良于行的艾瑞克家人的旅行车而跟著车到了内华达州。麦克在一次意外事件中救了艾瑞克之后，与艾瑞克兄弟和邻居女童黛比等人结为好友，并要求他们协助搜救在沙漠中垂死的家人。艾瑞克一行人终于在麦克的指引下找到他的家人并带他们回家，却不意在超级市场中造成骚动，警方及尾随而来的科学家们企图抓住他们而引发了冲击…

蓝眼睛米奇

　　米歇尔•法尔盖特（休•格兰特 饰）经营一间拍卖行，他是个温和的英国人，拍卖行的生意一向很好。他感觉成家的时候到了，便向他最爱的女友吉娜（詹姆斯•凯恩 饰）结婚。可是吉娜对结婚一词十分抗拒，她不愿意跟米歇尔结婚。这样使米歇尔疑惑极了，他认为女友是十分爱自己的，为何不能从此一同生活呢？　　直到后来，他才明白了吉娜的苦心。原来吉娜的父亲是一名黑帮老大，深爱着米歇尔的吉娜不愿自己的丈夫被卷进复杂的黑帮环境中。就算米歇尔向吉娜保证自己不会牵涉进去那些麻烦当中。　　可是事情并不如人意，他还是因为这个黑帮岳父惹来了很多麻烦，甚至被警察调查。从此，米歇尔也莫名其妙的成为了黑道中人……

我的秘密圣诞老人

　　一位单身母亲需要工作，一个滑雪度假村需要圣诞老人。泰勒假扮成圣诞老人，她能否骗过迷人的酒店继承人，拿到这份工作？

猫吻：当你打开心扉的那一瞬间

失去妻子后，没有灵魂地生活的童话作家赵容熙。他只要去妻子画画的房间，就会出现过度呼吸的症状，很久没进过那个房间了。但是从某一天开始，那个房间里开始传来奇怪的声音。鼓起勇气打开房门的龙熙。妻子房间的天花板漏水，住着在仁偷偷藏起来的小猫。在仁拜托我养猫，雪上加霜的是，来修理天花板的木匠哈罗恩提议把闲置的房间变成猫的房间…龙熙究竟会做出什么选择？

爱的艺术

　　故事发生于20世纪的德国，在一片茂密的森林里，隐藏着一所不为人知的神秘学校。在学校里，生活着一群年轻的女孩们，没有人知道她们是从哪里来的，就连她们自己也不太清楚。所有人仿佛一生下来就已经身在这闭塞的高墙之内，完全不知道外面还有着更广阔的的世界。　　海达拉（玛丽·奈姬 Mary Nighy 饰）、埃伦娜（汉娜·泰勒-高登 Hannah Taylor-Gordon 饰）、薇拉（娜塔丽·特纳 Natalia Tena 饰）和雷恩（安雅·拉希里 Anya Lahiri 饰）均是这所学校里的学生，当她们开始质疑起她们的生活和过去时，原本维系着学校内事务正常运作的条条框框都开始失去功能，两个女生的神秘失踪更是为此增添了不安定的因素。