成熟的嫂子

　　又是一年足球賽季，成績不甚良好的巴黎隊即將前往卡布隆吉與當?shù)厍蜿犨M行對抗。巴黎隊球星山姆·羅瑞特（奧爾本·勒努瓦 Alban Lenoir 飾）出生于卡布隆吉，他最近表現(xiàn)不太出色，因此備受媒體奚落。與此同時，眾多球迷相繼云集到球場，準備欣賞一場精彩的賽事。杰諾特（Sebastien Vandenberghe 飾）飾卡布隆吉的一名球員，他似乎和山姆有著不可化解的仇恨，因此不惜借助未知藥物的幫忙。誰想到注射藥物過后，杰諾特突然暴走，儼然變成了嗜血如命的僵尸，只是這一變故還沒有什么人察覺。　　漫長的旅途過后，巴黎隊抵達駐地，山姆被當做叛徒遭到家鄉(xiāng)人的謾罵。此時沒有人知道，即將到來的比賽中將會發(fā)生什么可怕的事件……

在巴黎第19區(qū)的一個工人街區(qū)，19歲的莎伊和杰內(nèi)巴是從小一起長大的好姐妹。一個被令人窒息的家庭所困擾，另一個則深陷孤獨的泥沼。某個夏天，她們遠離成長的高樓陰影，成為夏令營的輔導員，負責照看一群6到10歲的孩子。站在成年的門檻上，她們必須做出選擇，在成長中重新定義彼此的友誼。

　　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.

　　A blended family from the city buys a house sight unseen in an isolated backwoods hamlet. Things get rocky when the locals aren't as welcoming as expected and a dangerous urban legend turns out to be true. In their struggle to put down roots, they find their sanctuary in peril-and their lives threatened-by the land's haunted past.