善良的表妹

 影片直面数字时代时尚行业的迭代浪潮，当曾经指引潮流的时尚圣经《Runway》杂志遭遇前所未有的生存危机，“时尚女魔头”米兰达（梅丽尔·斯特里普 饰）与曾经的“职场小白”安迪（安妮·海瑟薇 饰）再度聚首，时尚圈地位将经历大洗牌——昔日的助理艾米莉（艾米莉·布朗特 饰）权力进阶成长为奢侈品集团高管；安迪也成为独当一面的职场强者。从各自为战到并肩破局，从过去“被支配”到“掌控话语权”，角色的身份转变与立场碰撞，更映照出女性在职场成长自我抉择中的蜕变与力量，启发人们重新去探寻关于梦想、权力与自我的人生命题。

　　安吉拉是27岁的普通女孩，生活平淡无奇。有天，她意外发现与自己亲近的人都死于非命。梵蒂冈教徒得知此事后，对安吉拉展开了一系列调查。可这次调查却引出了安吉拉背后古老的邪恶力量……

　　青春少女玛丽（Cécile De France 饰）和爱莉西娅（Maïwenn Le Besco 饰）是同在法国巴黎一所大学就读的好朋友。某个周末，两人驱车前往爱莉西娅家位于乡下的农场度假。适值深夜，万籁俱寂，玛丽寂寞难耐正在自我宣泄之时，一个不速之客突然闯入。他残忍杀害了爱莉西娅的父母和年幼的弟弟，并将其掳去。为了营救好友，玛丽悄悄钻进凶手的卡车。途经一个加油站，她换上同样惨遭杀害的店员的车继续跟踪，却被狡猾的凶手发现行迹。一场近乎迷幻的猫鼠杀戮游戏旋即进入高潮……　　本片荣获2003年Sitges – Catalonian国际电影节最佳女主角（Cécile De France）、最佳导演、最佳化装和欧洲奇幻电影大奖银奖。

　　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.

影片以一年四季为时间轴，讲述一个冰岛家庭在父母分居期间的生活。女主人公安娜是位视觉艺术家，刚失去工作室的她开始在户外创作。她的丈夫马格努斯是名渔夫，常年在海上作业，却拒绝接受婚姻已走到尽头的事实，不断回到曾经的家中。

　　自从他的爱妻12年前在海地大地震发生时不幸死于难产之后，维克多·菲尔汀（小莱斯利·奥多姆 Leslie Odom Jr. 饰）就一个人独自抚养他们的女儿安吉拉（莉娅·朱厄特 Lidya Jewett 饰）。　　但是当安吉拉和她的好友凯瑟琳（奥利维亚·马库姆 Olivia Marcum 饰）在树林中消失不见，三天后却又突然回家，完全不记得自己发生了什么事情之后，就引发了一连串的诡异事件，迫使维克多不得不面对有邪恶力量作祟的可能性，于是他出于绝望和恐惧，就向唯一亲眼目睹这种事却仍然活着的人求助：克莉丝·麦尼尔（艾伦·伯斯汀 Ellen Burstyn 饰）。