大爱撑天

新凯旋门

1982年，法国总统弗朗索瓦·密特朗决定为其任期的旗舰项目——拉德芳斯大拱门发起一场国际建筑竞赛，该项目与卢浮宫和凯旋门对齐。出乎所有人意料，一位在法国鲜为人知的 53 岁丹麦建筑师约翰·奥托·冯·斯普雷克尔森赢得了竞赛。这位建筑师打算完全按照自己的设想建造大拱门，但他的理念很快与实际限制和政治变幻莫测相冲突。这部电影以真实事件为灵感，讲述了这位理想主义的丹麦建筑师如何努力在政治博弈、官僚主义和艺术自由的限制下实现其宏伟愿景的故事。

口径

　　该片是马特·帕尔默的导演处女作，故事讲述两个毕生好友前往一个孤立的苏格兰高地村庄进行周末狩猎，然而他们面对接下来所发生的事情毫无准备。

忠勇之家

 故事发生在一九三九年的夏天，克里姆（沃尔特·皮金 Walter Pidgeon 饰）和妻子米尼佛夫人（葛丽亚·嘉逊 Greer Garson 饰）住在英国郊外，两人结婚多年，生了三个孩子，生活幸福美满。克里姆的大儿子韦恩（理查德·内伊 Richard Ney 饰）爱上了花会创办人的孙女贝尔（特雷莎·怀特 Teresa Wright 饰），情投意合的两人很快走到了一起。战争开始了，韦恩想要为国效忠，赶往了前线，而克里姆和米尼佛夫人则在后方支援。某日，一名德国飞行员受伤闯入了米尼佛夫人的后花园，米尼佛夫人凭借着自己的勇敢与智慧协助警察成功将其捉拿。米尼佛夫人和贝尔小姐在送韦恩前往驻地的途中遭遇了空袭，一时间凶多吉少。

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.

肖菲勒