La Querida

　　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.

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1956年匈牙利革命后，一个男孩从小被母亲灌输了关于已故父亲的理想化故事，却突然遇到一个粗野的男人，对方声称自己是他的亲生父亲。

　　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。

　　出于自卫，理查德射杀了侵入自己家中的陌生人。但是他不得不面对死者父亲的残忍报复。然而不久，敌对双方就发现事实并不像表面展现的那么简单，他们不得不联合起来面对黑暗的真相。