蜜桃熟了的夏日

　　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.

人人都中頭獎，難道人人都想中頭獎？九十年代伊拉克經歷軍事及經濟制裁，獨裁者薩達姆無懼動亂，勒令全國為自己慶祝生日。九歲女孩「喜獲頭獎」成為學校代表，被迫接下為總統炮制生日蛋糕的國家級重任。然而通貨膨脹、物資匱乏，雞蛋面粉都是奢侈品，女孩帶著寵物公雞，從沼澤向城市出發搜羅食材，完成這項國家交給她的任務！首有伊拉克電影進軍戛納，編導借小女孩充滿稚氣卻堅韌的目光，展現伊拉克從未被記錄過的一面，獻給在戰亂下仍能找到愛與友誼的小孩。戛納電影節金攝像機最佳首作。

 克萊默夫婦像普通的美國夫婦一樣，克萊默先生（達斯汀?霍夫曼 Dustin Hoffman 飾）在外工作掙錢，克萊默夫人（梅麗爾?斯特里普 Meryl Streep 飾）則在家照料照料6歲的兒子比利（賈斯汀?亨利 Justin Henry 飾）。由于克萊默先生忙于工作忽略了家庭，克萊默夫人某天憤然出走，留下了父子兩。克萊默先生現在一方面要忙于工作，一方面又要照顧比利，生活一時陷入麻煩中。克萊默先生不善家務，在照料比利時洋相百出：第一次為比利煎西多士、過程十分恐怖；比利不吃飯要吃雪糕，克萊默先生想阻止卻不懂溝通……幸好在女鄰居的幫助下，克萊默先生逐漸適應了單身父親的生活。父子兩越來越親密，互相依賴。這時，克萊默夫人回來了，她已經是紐約一名出色的設計師了。她回來要拿回比利的撫養權……

野心勃勃的小鎮音樂家的表演視頻在網絡上火了，他想要抓住機會在樂壇占據一席之地，可這場追名逐利的游戲也許不是他能夠把握的。