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　　20世纪70年代，在日本中小学生中间流传着这样一个恐怖的传说：放学独自走到公园附近时，会遇到一个带着白色口罩、穿红色风衣的女人。遇到路过者，她会摘下口罩，露出裂到耳朵的恐怖大嘴，问对方“我漂亮吗？”如回答不漂亮，她会将对方毁容；若回答漂亮，她就将对方变得和自己一样；如果逃跑，她会以极快的速度追上。这个女人的名字就叫：裂口女。　　各学校一时间人心惶惶，男女学生们都怕碰到这个可怕的女人，而大人们却对这个谣言嗤之以鼻。但随着一场不详的地震发生，裂口女终于到来……

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

　　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。

　　在一间教学素质低下的学校里，有一个不成文的传统：学生们凡是遇到了争执，都不能告诉老师家长，只能自己用拳头解决。石头（谢霆锋 饰）是最能打的一个同学，一次帮助富家子Edward（冯德伦 饰）解围，彼此成为朋友，二人也因此得罪了学校里的好战分子。阿凤（容祖儿 饰）一直暗恋既帅气学习有出色的Edward，而Edward认为学生最紧要是学习，会考时间逼近，Edward便义务帮助石头与阿凤补习。由于家境富有，Edward竟然在考试当天被绑架了，石头决心把他救回……