灵与欲

 为纪念逝世的奶奶，许久未见的堂兄弟大卫与班吉相约前往波兰参加导览团，也顺道探访奶奶的老家。一路上，班吉有话直说、率性风趣的性格迅速与同团人士拉近距离，令木讷拘谨的大卫既焦虑又羡慕，压抑已久的情绪日益沸腾。然而，随着旅途种种安排不断挑动班吉的敏感神经，他的狂放不羁似乎逐渐走向失序，大卫试图息事宁人，但内心的不安却席卷而来。这趟寻根之旅，能否解决彼此心底难以言说的痛楚？

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

　　东京，一个世界知名的大城市。 Sarah (何超仪 饰) 与男友分手后，来到此地欲求购买房生产，并度过一个短暂而宁静的假期，但一切事与愿违。由于美国总统的突然到访东京，原定的酒店已满。　　房地产公司将她安置在一座非常破旧废弃令人毛骨悚然的私人民宿 “minipaku” 中 ，当Sarah入住时，她发现它是由一位老妇人（白川和子 饰）经营的。她在那里的第一个晚上感到十分不安和可怕，噩梦连连，并且病了起来，只能被迫留下来，更令她意外地发现了一具正在被寄生虫吞噬的完整骨骼。警察局的高级警司（高桥和也 饰）接手调查，也发现这家民宿牵涉多宗连环离奇失踪案件，怪事连连，警司也未能为Sarah破解。　　这座有着非常神秘力量和不明历史的房子，与Sarah有着某种联系。当 “minpaku” 的灯熄灭时，可怕而令人不安的景象笼罩着她，它们变得越来越真实。一场又一场可怕而离奇的噩梦，令人不知道这是开始还是结束，似乎一切都是安排好的。

　　本片根据真实历史事件改编。　　1971年，黑人激进组织领导迈克尔X因贩毒被控告，但因他一年前取得了英国皇室成员玛格丽特公主的私密照片并以此要挟官方而被开释。英国军情五处工作人员提姆（Richard Lintern 饰）受命取回收藏在伦敦某银行的这批照片。　　提姆物色到贩毒女子玛婷（Saffron Burrows 饰），要挟她抢劫银行来为自己取得照片。玛婷很快同以泰瑞（Jason Statham 饰）为首的几个半职业罪犯或新人组成了计划挖地道劫掠保险库的团伙。　　泰瑞等人如愿将保险库洗劫，但赃物却让他们坐立不安：涉及皇室成员的私密照片、银行家行贿官员的账本、高官们不可告人的龌龊爱好……由于一位无线电爱好者无意间听到了他们作案时的对话内容，此案掀起轩然大波，泰瑞等人陷入了各种势力争夺的中心，他只能借助手上的证据苦苦周旋……