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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

香港著名慈善基金会晚宴现场，财务总监杨滔（任达华 饰）离奇吊死在会场，疑云笼罩之下，两亿善款也不翼而飞！“良知律师”马迎风（郭富城 饰）与“玩咖警长”柯定邦（吴镇宇 饰）意外被卷入其中，随着二人调查不断深入，慈善表象之下的骇人罪恶也接连现形——操纵司法、买凶杀人、走私贩毒、勾结境外势力……善意变生意，民众的捐款竟沦为黑恶组织的血包！杨滔之死的真相到底是什么？他们能否将所有内幕公之于众，还社会以公道？

　　这部电影将六个故事组合成一个综合系列，描绘了由于人类错误的欲望而发生的奇异事件。

　　故事设定在近未来，由于人口过剩和饥荒，政府不得不实行“独生子女”政策。正因为这个严格的计划生育议程，姐妹们必须轮流使用一个人的身份Karen Settman(拉佩斯饰)。她们的祖父(达福饰)给其命名为周一、周二、周三、周四、周五、周六和周日。每个人都可以每周外出一次。姐妹们只有在自己的公寓里才可以自在生活。直到有一天，“星期一”没回家......

　　1941年，第二次世界大战如火如荼。英国伦敦遭到纳粹法西斯的毁灭性轰炸，成千上万的人流离失所，更有无数儿童沦为孤儿。为了躲避战火的蹂躏，陆军军官的妻子海伦·霍格女士（海伦·麦克洛瑞 Helen McCrory 饰）与伊芙·帕金斯（菲比·福克斯 Phoebe Fox 饰）带着孤儿们登上列车，辗转来到一处偏远所在避难。经过长途跋涉，她们抵达目的地并被安排在临时的占时军队医院落脚。只不过它的前身这里正是那个黑衣女人横行盘桓的Eel Marsh House。才脱狼穴，又入虎口，惊慌失措的女人和孩子们即将迎来比战争更为可怕的噩梦，恶灵的杀戮有序展开……　　本片根据英国小说家苏珊·希尔（Susan Hill）的畅销小说改编。

　　影片构建了一个妙趣横生的死后世界观：人离世后将抵达一个连接无数“永恒世界”的中转站，一旦选择就无法改变。故事始于赖瑞（迈尔斯·特勒 饰）被蝴蝶饼噎死的荒诞开场，他在中转站重获青春，等待妻子琼安（伊丽莎白·奥尔森 饰）的到来。然而琼安到来后，却面临新的难题——她在战争中阵亡的前夫卢克（卡勒姆·特纳 饰），竟已在此苦候她67年。　　两个男人为了获得琼安的最终选择， 展开了一系列令人捧腹的“竞争”，各种啼笑皆非的较量让本该严肃的永恒抉择变成了一场妙趣横生的“爱情竞赛”。面对车站里呈现的琳琅满目的人生可能，一边是共同走过漫长岁月、充满柴米油盐记忆的现任丈夫；一边是曾令她刻骨铭心、苦候她67年的前度挚爱， 琼安必须做出最终的选择：与谁携手， 共赴永恒？