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西南偏南电影节剧情片竞赛。                                                                      　　Nellie and Daisy attempt to escape the institution for delinquent girls in 1954 New Zealand, however not only are they caught, it triggers a relocation to a facility on a remote island. The duo become a trio as well-to-do Lou joins them, and life on the island takes shape under the command of devout Matron. The trio rail against the system, dubious of the benevolence of the bible and taking refuge in their blossoming friendship. It’s hard to reform girls who don’t believe they need reforming. However, a sense of doom settles in when experimental forms of punishment take place in the dead of night. Nellie and Daisy plot rebellion, but unexpectedly find themselves at odds with Lou, who is afraid to break the rules.

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　　未来世界能源枯竭，食物短缺。雷恩醒来，三名蒙面人将他和女友劫持，他奋力挣脱却从楼梯摔下。雷恩再次醒来，发现自己经历着同样的一天。他告诉女友汉娜，却发现汉娜和蒙面人是一伙的。雷恩才发现，他们都陷入了自己制造的ARQ能源机引发的时间循环中，而雷恩曾经效力过的Torus公司正要夺走这台机器。为了阻止Torus公司，雷恩和汉娜再次进入无限的循环...

阴影村

　　九位年轻人, 一同出游到一个叫做法国乡间的鲁福瑞村去度假, 殊不知此村庄在上百年前的法国大革命时, 就已经受到死亡的诅咒, 每八年就会有惨案发生, 九位年轻人一到达村庄後, 便一个个消失, 这个神秘的村庄到底发生了什麽事?

等待方舟

　　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.

第27天生死劫

魔法坏女巫

　　影片讲述了奥兹国两位女巫鲜为人知的成长故事。因绿色皮肤而备受误解的艾芙芭（辛西娅·埃里沃 Cynthia Erivo 饰）与光彩夺目、野心勃勃的格琳达（爱莉安娜·格兰德 Ariana Grande 饰）在西兹大学结识，性格迥异的二人却建立起了深厚的友谊。然而，随着与奥兹国大巫师的邂逅，她们的友谊走向十字路口，二人面临着截然不同的命运之路。这段奇幻冒险揭示了友谊、力量与自我发现的真谛。