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　　In the suburbs of Rome two very different souls intersect. One is the son of a restaurant owner who disappeared with his lover. The other is a young mysterious woman who has arrived from China in search of her missing sister.

　　在一个舒适的季节，弗朗西斯科（艾邦·摩斯·贝克许 Ebon Moss-Bachrach 饰）和怀有身孕的妻子贝丝（凡妮莎·肖 Vinessa Shaw 饰）来到墨西哥某个海滨小镇度假。适值狂欢节期间，小镇四周歌舞升平，纸醉金迷，多少青年男女流连忘返。弗朗西斯科渴望寻觅一个安宁的所在，他找到当地的渔夫，从对方手中租下一艘船，打算在附近某个僻静的小岛安然度过五六天。次日，他和妻子抵达目的地。那里寂静无声，几乎看不到一个人影。岛上的孩子们偶尔逡巡四周，但无一例外脸上都挂着狰狞冷漠的表情。　　未过多久，令他们毛骨悚然的事情接连发生。岛上的孩子手执凶器猎杀成人，期间更发出令人不寒而栗的笑声。孩童的杀戮仍在继续，弗朗西斯科夫妇能否逃离……

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

　　当一个男人爱上一个订婚的女人时，他决定设计一个计划－回到过去在她遇见她未来丈夫之前追到她，透过他的才智与金钱，配合科学家教授多年来的研究，他将回到过去抢得先机，一旦回到过去，他会发现爱总是在他意想不到的地方…