查泰莱夫人之风华绝代

改编自英国电影《爱丽丝的失踪》                                                                      　　为了给弟弟的手术费筹钱，海兰与身为高利贷主的泰秀联合策划了一起绑架案，目标就是海兰同父异母的姐姐素珍。素珍之前并不知道自己还有个妹妹，当身份关系揭晓，绑匪和人质之间变得微妙起来……

　　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.

 Hamza Ali Mazari, whose real identity is Jaskirat Singh Rangi, pursues his undercover operation within Pakistan's criminal world while tracking down Majo.

　　曾经叱咤小镇的“大哥”黄荣发（黄渤 饰）如今嘴硬腿软，开启人生困难模式，但他和家人都没有被命运的风浪裹挟。儿子黑狗达（范丞丞 饰）看似是黄家唯一“淡人”，暗地却密谋如何发家又“治父”；妻子陈梨珍（殷桃 饰）样样全能横扫困难，是小镇人尽皆知不太好惹的“妈系超人”；胆大手“黑”的女儿黄娇娇（李嘉琦 饰）和“神”通广大的阿太（刘雪华 饰）也各出奇招笑料百出。逆境当前，一家唯有兴“疯”作浪跟生活贴脸硬刚，没准真能让他们绝地翻盘？

 When a young woman faces a deadly diagnosis, she seeks dark magic from a witch in the woods... but every cure has costs.

 来自与世隔绝的宗教社区的妇女们努力使她们的现实与她们的信仰相协调。通过背景故事，我们看到一个妇女社区聚集在一起，研究如何共同前进，为她们自己和她们的孩子建立一个更美好的世界。要么留下来战斗，要么离开。她们不会什么都不做。