姊妹情色

猿山异闻录

据传闻，古时候有座山叫猿猴山，猿猴山有一国，名为猿国。猿国有一罕见白猿，猿国尊护白猿为神，称“猿神”，百姓日夜供奉，祈求平安。近日，有传言说“猿神”暴怒，不会再庇护猿国了，国主才会久病不起，导致猿国上下人心惶惶。为了稳定民心，猿国国主请求太极村掌门延一道人帮助猿国调查传言真相，让百姓心安。延一道人派遣弟子玄城前往猿国协助，探寻背后真相。

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.

马腾你别走

没钱没爱还没心没肺的马腾（林更新 饰）人近中年一事无成，是旁人眼里公认的“废柴”！钢厂退休骨干老林（李幼斌 饰）遵守铁打的纪律活了一辈子本该安享晚年，身体和心理却双双“亮起红灯”！本无生活交集的两人因为一场歪打正着的护工面试相遇，展开了一段啼笑皆非的有趣互救。老林为求解脱，将“协助自杀”的希望寄托在这个不靠谱的护工身上。马腾虽然想赚钱完成女儿的心愿，但无胆害命，只能发挥自己的乐观心态在日常中提供情绪价值给老林。二人在一段特殊的旅途中建立起生死友谊，于病痛与死亡的阴影里找到了活下去的小小微光，携手大胆迎接未知的生活。

凯歌香槟

该片基于Tilar J. Mazzeo所著小说《The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It》，讲述19世纪法国凯歌酒庄早年的坚韧发家历程，将这个标志性橙色品牌背后的迷人年轻女子形象栩栩如生地展现出来。                                                                      　　凯歌香槟1772年由商人菲利普·克里科创立，其子弗朗索瓦·克里科与商业大亨尼古拉斯·庞萨丁的女儿芭比·妮可·庞萨丁结婚后，夫妻俩逐渐接手酒厂，一同发展香槟事业。七年后，弗朗索瓦在30岁时因伤寒突然去世，震惊的菲利普打算清算公司，27岁的芭比决定接管丈夫的生意，成为19世纪初期在男性主导的世界中经营国际企业的首批商业女性之一。在当时的法国，寡妇是唯一不需要经过丈夫或父亲的同意进行工作、读书的女性。                                                                      　　因为战争，酒业一度摇摇欲坠，公司面临破产，芭比通过将香槟出口到俄罗斯力挽狂澜，拿破仑战争期间，凯歌香槟在整个欧洲的皇室宫廷取得了大幅进展，将其确立为整个欧洲上流社会和贵族青睐的饮品方面发挥了重要作用。

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