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马诺哈拉·K在13岁时就凭借在影片《铁路少年》中的出色表演荣获印度国家电影奖最佳儿童演员奖。如今，二十出头的马诺哈拉初执导筒，将女作家索尼娅·S的获奖自传小说搬上银幕，讲述了一个白化病女孩的成长之路。片中，来自贫困家庭的索尼娅因为白化病在学校受到歧视和敌意，父亲置若罔闻、母亲有心但无力，她只能依靠自己。导演并没有向索尼娅投去同情目光，而是带着一定距离感去呈现她的处境，成功塑造了一个勇敢、乐天的女孩如何接纳自己并让白化病这个“缺点”成为特点。

　　美丽女孩蕾贝卡（莎拉·博格 Sarah Bolger 饰）是一家女子教会寄宿学校的学生，开朗热情的她在学校结识了许多好朋友，其中金发女孩露西（莎拉·戈登 Sarah Gadon 饰）与之关系最为融洽。二人形影不离，无话不说，亲密无间。新学期伊始，高挑冷艳的恩妮莎（莉莉·科尔 Lily Cole 饰）转入她们的学校。恩妮莎那妖媚的神秘气息令蕾贝卡备感不适，可是露西似乎对其颇有好感，二人越走越近。与此同时，恩妮莎似乎也勾起蕾贝卡深埋心中的不堪回忆。这个恍如从哥特恐怖小说中走出来的女子，究竟藏着怎样的秘密……　　本片根据Rachel Klein 同名畅销科幻恐怖小说。

Ayşe, Ali, Mehmet and Zeynep are middle-class millennials struggling to make ends meet in Istanbul. Either still living with their parents or hardly getting by without help from their families, they are all beset by similar woes: money crunch, joblessness, social isolation. In view of the world’s horrors that Zeynep enumerates in her diary entries, these are minor problems, ‘slight disasters’, but they are all-consuming, at least to the extent of making them cry in the still of the night. 　　However, Umut Subasi’s first feature, Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster, is not a melodrama. With an appealingly light touch, it diagnoses the malaise of a generation that has run up against a dead end, one whose future prospects are indistinguishable from a game of chance. This is a world where astrology, the lottery and online personality tests compete with visa and job applications as life-shaping elements. 　　Fittingly, the film is structured around chance and coincidence, with its handful of characters encountering each other in every permutation, as though there were no world outside this small social bubble. With self-aware, frontal framing that pins characters to their surroundings and a counterintuitive musical score that turns pathos into humour, Subasi offers a social-media movie without social media, one whose characters are united in their double lives and frustrated desires. 　　源自：https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2023/films/almost-entirely-a-slight-disaster