心理师之灭门惨案

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.

西关大屋

　　广州末代西关小姐潘梦蝶，曾是一位绝代佳人，如今住在西关大屋中。在将近一个世纪的时间长河里，她坚守着自己的爱情，坚守着家族的秘密，坚守着属于她自己的祖屋……社区民警马思鹏是一位身手矫健、头脑聪颖、乐于助人的人民警察。他接到了一桩名为“代号西关小姐”的涉毒案件。在调查的过程中，马思鹏结识潘梦蝶及其后人叶伊西。随着案件的深入，许多不为人知的秘密随之解开，一场关于警民、亲情、血缘等复杂情感的生死较量即将展开……

杰莎贝尔

　　平凡女人杰莎贝尔（莎拉·斯努克 Sarah Snook 饰）与男友普瑞斯顿（马克·韦伯 Mark Webber 饰）即将迎来新的生命，当他们准备搬入新家之际，却遭遇一场突如其来的车祸。这场灾难让当下两个最重要的生命从杰莎贝尔的人生中消失，痛不欲生的她拨通了久未谋面的父亲的电话，坐着轮椅回到了位于路易斯安那的老家。某天，杰莎偶然在床下找到一卷母亲当年生她之前录下的影像，画面中妈妈期望女儿能在18岁那年看到录影带，而且用塔罗牌预测了杰莎未来的运势。预言中有一个看不见的灵魂逡巡在杰莎的身旁，而对方却满怀恶意企图将杰莎赶出房子。　　在此之后，诡异的梦境和神秘事件接连向杰莎袭来，而她将遭遇最为恐怖的一段噩梦体验……

第27天生死劫

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　　A coming-of-age story of a girl who experience life through misadventures & dating apps.

治疗尸

　　如果灵魂离开了身躯，肉体还是正常活动，该怎么去解释这种生命形态？余燕（陈郡君饰）早晨醒来便觉得身体有异常，先后与家人和男友许德（张立昂饰）发生争执，盛怒的余燕转身离去，随后发生车祸。经医生抢救逃过死劫，却找不到心跳。此时她被劫走，醒来后身处在地下密室，研究失魂者的胡教授解释余燕会失去魂魄，是因为内心有强烈的负面磁场，一旦受到冲击，灵魂就会脱离身体。余燕需要在72小时内把自己的灵魂找回来，才能够恢复正常。

啄木鸟和雨

　　宁静的山村进入雨季。村中的老伐木工人岸克彦（役所广司 饰）为人古板，与儿子关系紧张。他在上工途中给东京来的新人导演田边幸一（小栗旬 饰）和副导演带路，由此被拉入一部丧尸电影的外景拍摄。在被迫充当临时演员后，克彦竟对电影产生了微妙的兴趣，他开始不请自来的帮助摄制组与村民沟通，开展工作，甚至忽略了本职与妻子的忌日。　　突然闯入的摄制组扰乱了山村的平静和克彦的生活，也改变了导演幸一自身。幸一生性腼腆缺乏自信，在摄制组中毫无威信。偶然间他发现自己的丧尸剧本竟为克彦所欣赏，不禁大受鼓舞，两人在数次的泡澡时间里进行了奇妙的沟通。在克彦的帮助下，幸一慢慢树立了自信，电影拍摄也步入正轨。然而临关机前的一场瓢泼大雨再次令拍摄陷入危机，克彦的缺席也令幸一惶恐无措起来……　　影片获第24届东京国际电影节评委会大奖。片中两位主演役所广司和小栗旬在现实中亦均担任过导演。