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鄰人X 奇怪的她

　　上野樹里と林遣都の共演により、第14回小説現代長編新人賞を受賞したパリュスあや子の小説「隣人X」が映畫化。「隣人X 疑惑の彼女」のタイトルで12月1日より東京?新宿ピカデリーほか全國で公開される。

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　　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.

開棺2025

一對夫妻在他們的土地里挖掘出一座古墓后，圍繞著一條被詛咒的項鏈和一個充滿復仇之心的鬼魂，發生了一連串恐怖事件……

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我叫艾妮塔

阿格內塔是個色彩鮮明且幽默的人，但表面上并不明顯。她剛滿49歲，孩子們已經離巢，交通辦公室的工作停滯不前，阿格內塔感到自己像個透明人。而她的丈夫則通過泡冰水澡和穿著昂貴裝備快速騎行找到了生活的意義。為了逃離日常生活的枯燥枷鎖，阿格內塔離開了安全的瑞典生活，去法國為一位瑞典男孩做保姆。然而，當男孩艾納爾其實是一位年邁古怪的瘋狂紳士時，誤會成了事實。這成為一段混亂而充滿生命力的友誼的開始，徹底顛覆了阿格妮塔對生活和自我的認知。因為一個人到底怎么能活出自己寶貴的生命呢？