甜蜜的性爱：再来一次

树叶已经开始变了，但乔纳森·鲁斯特教授对即将到来的学期仍然准备不足。本周末，他正在为考古系的野外工作课程寻找合适的地点。在同行学者和雇工的帮助下，该团队在拂晓时分出发。这次旅行为乔纳森提供了一个难得的机会，让他亲自动手，成功可能意味着出版，也可能意味着终身教职。当一名助教神秘失踪时，探险队很快就脱轨了。很快，这群人发现自己处于现实和来世的交汇处，陷入了令人难忘的疯狂之中。

　　马拉西亚的卖座冠军片，马拉西亚恐怖片。　　六个名校女生玩刺激扮鬼上身，吓到学校请来法师驱邪，穿帮后被罚留校几日，继续搞鬼玩出鬼，嗜血的恐怖之门一打开就没得回头……

　　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.

　　提奥·詹姆斯、艾米丽·拉塔科夫斯基(《消失的爱人》)主演犯罪新片《谎言与偷窃》(Lying and Stealing)首曝剧照，近日刚于洛杉矶开拍。Matt Aselton(《不可思议》)执导，讲述一个年轻、圆滑的贼Ivan，他的专长是盗窃洛杉矶上层集团的高端艺术品，事业发展很顺利，但他想退出。Elyse是一名很有前途的女演员，她的密室里堆有成山的建筑骨架和大量债务。两位机灵的骗子决定合作，参与一项大胆的抢劫案。　　弗雷德·迈拉麦德(《严肃的男人》《炸天女郎》)、Ebon Moss-Bachrach(《惩罚者》《末日孤舰》)、Isiah Whitlock Jr.(《迷雾》《副总统》)、伊万·汉德勒(《加州靡情》《欲望都市》)、约翰·盖汀斯(《铁甲钢拳》《极品飞车》)等参演，Michael Costigan(《断背山》《美国黑帮》)、Naomi Despres(《一级重罪》《杀死信使》)、Christopher Tricarico(《高堡奇人》《五月夏日》)、Mohamed AlRafi(《毋庸置疑》)共同制片。