义母小情人

好像一切都很糟糕

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

诅咒：纳扎尔

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　　莎拉（艾丽莎·易默思 Alexa Yeames 饰）、托德（罗德·赫尔南德兹 Rod Hernandez 饰）、杰夫（杰森·托比亚斯 Jason Tobias 饰）、艾瑞克（安东尼·科洛 Anthony Kirlew 饰）、凯伦（斯蒂芬妮·皮尔森 Stephanie Pearson）、朱迪（凯莉·科耐尔 Kelly Connaire 饰）等六名大学生利用假期驱车游玩，途中他们的汽车爆胎。不巧的是他们抛锚的地点信号太差，四周前不着村后不着店，她们只能自己动手修理汽车。身处荒郊野外，年轻人们只能耐心等待旅途的再度开启。谁知就在这时候，其中两人被不知来自何方的子弹射中，相继惨死在烈日之下。恐慌迅速弥漫，而无情的子弹则接二连三射向他们。　　不知何时，他们已经闯入无情杀手的狩猎场，成为逃生希望渺茫的猎物……