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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

 这是一部极为出色的关于人与自然的电影。1902年和1907年，沙俄军官阿尔谢尼耶夫两次率领勘探队到乌苏里地区探险，都巧遇赫哲族老猎手德尔苏·乌扎拉。德尔苏.乌扎拉为勘探队充当向导，并挽救了阿尔谢尼耶夫的生命，与之建立了深厚的情谊。德苏对大自然相当了解与尊重，藉由他的示范 与见解，让人们了解大自然的伟大与残酷，人是可以与大自然和平相处，但当大自然被破坏时，人们将是第一个遭殃。德苏是一个神枪手，但后来在一次打猎时，德苏发现自己的眼睛因为身体衰老而退化，看不清猎物了，十分沮丧。他随阿尔谢尼耶夫到大城市伯力居住。但是，城市文明德苏却无法习惯，城市和他过去赖以生存的地方，那片纯朴的自然大地是完全不同的。猎人离开枪，离开了他所熟悉的环境，仿佛鱼儿离开了水。“城里没法狩猎，不狩猎就没有貂”“我突然想念空气。”他象是被囚禁了一般，闷闷不乐。德苏执意回到山里，回到那片密林。但是，猎人没有好的视力，便是最大的悲剧。猎人不能猎杀，自己便被会猎杀。勇敢的德苏虽然带着阿尔谢尼耶夫送给他的新猎枪，但是他却死了……

　　在二次世界大战后，即将结婚的花花公子开车到赌城作最后一次寻欢，不料邂逅了美丽的女歌手，并发现了她是赌城大亨巴格西的情妇。他该回到自己的规律生活中，还是继续追求这段冒险的爱情呢？名编剧家尼尔赛门由自己的爱情经历创作出本片，对男女之间的感情游戏有深刻的体会，所以剧情虽然简单，趣味性倒不弱。亚历克．鲍德温和金．贝辛格因拍摄本片而牵上红线，可见其演出投入。此外，金．贝辛格亲自主唱片中歌曲，颇有几分性感歌星的架势。

　　莫妮卡有個正值青春期的女兒卡拉，但一天早上卡拉卻因一場奇怪的事件而失蹤，幾個小時後被人發現時已意識不清，醫生更宣告她剩下的時間不多。莫妮卡無法接受自己的女兒已無藥可救，在極度絕望之下，參與了一場暗黑儀式，並跟一名神秘的男人訂下契約，以挽救卡拉的性命。隔天卡拉突然恢復活力，連醫生也無法解釋原因，但莫妮卡的夢魘才正要開始。