外出時刻

　　羅蘭·拉菲特([她])、艾瑪紐爾·貝克特([我的國王])主演新片[外出時刻]( L’heure de la sortie，暫譯)進入拍攝后期。本片由塞巴斯蒂安·馬赫尼耶自編自導。故事講述皮埃爾因一位年輕老師自殺，作為填補進入圣·約瑟夫學院工作。他很快發現這里青少年散發著一種敵意。本片預計8月2日殺青。

環法

　　Far’Hook is a 20-year-old rapper. Following a violent dispute with a rival, he’s forced to leave Paris for a while. His producer, Bilal, suggests that Far’Hook acts as driver for Bilal’s father, Serge, on a tour of French ports, following in the footsteps of the classic painter Joseph Vernet.　　Despite the age gap and culture clash, an unlikely friendship forms between this talented rapper and a bricklayer from the north of France during a road trip that concludes in Marseille for a final concert, one of reconciliation.

在你的愛情里

午夜之子

　　雅各布（Zak Kilberg 飾）是一個奇怪的小伙子，他似乎患有一種怪病，這種病令他無法生活在陽光之下，長久以來，雅各布一直都隱藏在黑暗之中，直到有一天他邂逅了一位名為瑪麗（Maya Parish 飾）的調酒師，相互吸引的兩人很快就墜入了愛河之中。　　漸漸的，瑪麗察覺到了雅各布異于常人的地方，他的行為舉止不僅變得越來越古怪，雅各布還必須時時克制自己越來越洶涌的嗜血欲望。為了獲得血液，雅各布殺了人，現在，他需要擔心受怕的事情又多了一件，如何躲避警察的調查成為了重中之重。可即便如此，雅各布還是深深的愛著瑪麗，為了能夠將瑪麗留在身邊，雅各布不得不做出更加出格的舉動。

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.