温柔情人

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

　　三，是家的最小单位。血脉，是维系家庭的纽带。然而，三个素不相识的人却被命运交织在一起！　　善恶难辨的男人“驯鹿”，身怀六甲的女人李棋，哑巴男孩冰棍，三人假扮成一家人，游走于猎物与猎人之间，暗流已至，生死一瞬，一个关于家族式人口贩卖的黑暗链条逐渐浮出水面！

 年轻的马里恩·克兰（珍妮特·利 饰）在Phoenix工作，深受老板洛厄里（沃恩·泰勒 饰）信任。男友萨姆·卢米斯（约翰·加文 饰）在Fairvale经营一家五金店，因要替亡父还债又要支付前妻赡养费而无力再婚，只能借出差的机会偶尔来与马里恩幽会。马里恩对此感到不满，于是在周五下午趁机携四万美元公款驾车潜逃。可是马里恩的潜逃之路并不顺利：先是在出城的时候被洛厄里目击，周六一大早又被警察怀疑。花了七百美元以旧车换新车之后，马里恩继续忐忑地行驶。入夜后，天降大雨，视线模糊，无法行驶，马里恩只得将车泊入路边的贝茨汽车旅馆投宿。老板诺尔曼（安东尼·珀金斯 饰）十分友善，试图邀请马里恩到家里共进晚餐，可惜被凶恶的母亲粗暴阻止，只得将晚餐端至旅馆客厅。马里恩在客厅一边进餐一边与诺尔曼交谈，终于决定周日返回Phoenix。用餐完毕，马里恩回房沐浴。这时，一个老妇的身影突然出现在卫生间……

 普特里一直只知道她的母亲萨里是一位才华横溢的塔罗牌占卜师，深受众多高官显贵和商界名流的信赖。她对萨里几乎没有任何私人记忆，直到萨里在一场事故中丧生。有一天，普特里收到了一条手机短信——来自她已故母亲的号码。起初，她以为这只是个恶作剧。但渐渐地，这些短信开始指引她未来的命运——而这些命运真的发生了。普特里慢慢意识到，这些短信确实是她母亲发来的。