女摄影师的欲望

 影片讲述一个导演，克服了各种困难拍摄一部讲述罗马尼亚独立战争大片的故事，值得一提的是，这部影片就是罗马尼亚1912年拍摄的第一部电影史诗——《独立战争》。《余下的就是沉默》尽管根据真人真事改编，但是男主角电影导演却是虚构的，他为了拍电影一方面要筹募资金，另一方面还要提防一家法国电影公司窃取他的创意。该片公映后好评如潮，一举囊括了2009年罗马尼亚GOPO电影奖最佳影片、最佳编剧、最佳女主角等九项大奖，被誉为罗马尼亚近二十年最出众的影片之一。

　　本片以主人公大卫·布莱恩架车游历美国得克萨斯州过程中所见所闻为主线，透过一个个具有鲜明个性的小人物及发生在他们身上的故事，展示了当地人对于生活和爱情的独特理解。该片值得称道的是将歌舞与写实完美结合，大量旋律优美的乡村民谣,歌曲成为片中最耀眼的亮点，也是导演大卫·布莱恩对电影艺术的创新之举，是一次成功的探索。

　　本片根据社会活动家约翰·戴维森的人生经历改编。他年少时被诊断出患有妥瑞氏综合征，会不受控制地抽动身体或口吐恶言。妥瑞氏综合征迫使约翰与同龄人疏远，而他则不懈与这种鲜为人知的症状作斗争，积极为妥瑞氏人群发声。

新婚的萧灵儿（陆烟 饰）前往儿时的山间别墅度假。途中，诡异事件接踵而至，双生女童、深夜归来的守门人，让萧灵儿惊恐不已。次日，萧灵儿的闺蜜和前男友不请自来，守门人的儿子带着女友来见家长。更恐怖的是，一个神秘的红衣女孩如鬼魂般在深山老宅中闪现，勾起了当地流传已久的鬼娃玛丽传说。在这深山隔绝之地，鬼娃使众人陷入死亡之境。灵异现象频繁出现，血腥事件不断发生，等待众人的是一个埋藏多年的鬼娃复仇传说。

　　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.

　　澳大利亚男演员杰森·克拉科将出演影片《查帕奎迪克岛》(Chappaquiddick，暂译)，他在片中饰演肯尼迪家族成员之一参议员爱德华·肯尼迪，即肯尼迪总统的弟弟。《面纱》导演约翰·卡兰执导筒。影片将聚焦1969年以爱德华·肯尼迪为核心的“查帕奎迪克丑闻事件”，“肯尼迪诅咒”再次现身大银幕。