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　　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.

格吉（杀人鬼）

马拉加街夕阳红

79岁的西班牙女子玛丽亚·安赫莱斯独自生活在摩洛哥的丹吉尔，享受着自己的日常生活。然而，当她女儿从马德里赶来，想要卖掉她一直居住的公寓时，她的生活彻底被打乱了。决心留下来的她，竭尽所能想要夺回自己的家与财物，却意外重拾了爱情与感官的愉悦。

草莓月亮

本片改编自同名小说。樱井萌（当真亚美 饰）从小体弱多病，无法上学，也没有朋友，每天独自度过时光。她一直有一个小小的梦想——在自己生日那天，与喜欢的人一起观赏据说能让恋人永远相守的六月满月“草莓月亮”。然而，15岁那年冬天，她被告知生命所剩无几。                                                                      　　从医院回家的路上，萌邂逅了命中注定的人，并下定决心进入高中就读。入学典礼当天，她在初次见面的情况下，向同班同学佐藤日向（斋藤润 饰）突然告白，人生第一次恋爱就此开始。终于到了共赏草莓月亮的那一天，但从那天起，萌突然从学校消失，日向再也无法联系上她。而萌离开的真相，以及13年后传来的秘密究竟是什么…

婚姻故事

 讲述了结婚多年并育有一子的戏剧导演查理和女演员妮可因工作分居而不得不走向离婚，在这场为了争夺抚养权的离婚拉锯战中，关于爱情、婚姻和家庭真实感人的细枝末节牵动人心。两人的关系又将何去何从？

汝矣岛

　　在金融中心如矣岛从事股票基金工作的黄宇真外表光鲜，但生活究竟怎样苦乐自知。从小独自抚养他长大的父亲病重在床，巨大的生活压力令他不得不向高利贷借款，却又似乎背上更为沉重的包袱。在此期间，他和妻子的关系逐渐冷淡，并出现裂痕；而老实木讷的他在公司又受到部长和后辈排挤，面临被裁员的命运，　　在某个沮丧的夜晚，醉酒而归的黄宇真重逢儿时的玩伴正勋。正勋从小自称正义的化身，他多次帮助宇真排忧解难。当晚，宇真一句无心之言，次日后辈竟被人杀害，而他的事业似乎也出现了转机。在此之后，接连有令宇真厌烦的人离奇死亡，似乎那个正义的朋友暗中出手帮助了他……