摩登龙争虎斗

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

 对于音乐家雷米（帕特里克·迪瓦尔 Patrick Dewaere 饰）来说，日子变得越来越不好过，不仅仅是职业上的停滞不前，妻子一成不变的容颜和乏味的婚姻生活也让他几近抓狂。就在这个节骨眼上，妻子车祸身亡的消息让雷米感到震惊却又有一丝解脱，而妻子留下的14岁的继女玛丽安（阿里尔·贝西 Ariel Besse 饰）也成为了一个包袱。玛丽安的生父想夺回玛丽安的抚养权，没想到，小小的玛丽安却更愿意和继父生活在一起。同一屋檐下，这对没有血缘关系的“父女”之间的情感变得朦胧而又暧昧。对于玛丽安的火热表白，雷米从最初的果断拒绝到之后的欲拒还迎，他能否守住伦理道德的最后一条底线呢？

　　Feature adaptation of the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.

一场惨绝人寰的连环惨案，让雷杰米一直被恶灵缠身困扰。但只有他知道真正的凶手是一种“看不见、摸不着”的在阴影中潜伏的恶灵：无声逼近、瞬间夺命，只留破碎尸体与无法解释的诡异痕迹。 雷杰米与女医生卢娜联合调查时发现，一切源于他童年母亲死亡有关的研究秘密释放的远古恶灵，它正以扭曲低语和血迹标记猎物，吞噬猎物的恐惧，将他们逐个拖入绝望死亡。证人离奇发狂、无人医院深处传来湿滑爬行声……而每当人心恐惧到极点， 恶灵便会在黑暗中悄悄靠近…… 身边人接连惨死，雷杰米必须直面纠缠他一生的“恶灵”，才能拯救他所爱之人。当他们以为噩梦终结时，恶灵却失控逃逸扩散，更大的恐惧才刚刚苏醒……