挡不住的风情

　　20世纪40年代，美国某个依靠石油而发展起来的小镇。当地最大富豪彻斯特·康维（Ned Beatty 饰）的儿子艾尔姆（Jay R. Ferguson 饰）即将成婚，然而却有件事让彻斯特颇感烦恼。原来艾尔姆此前和妓女乔伊丝·雷克兰德（杰西卡•阿尔芭 Jessica Alba 饰）有染，为避免尴尬之事发生，彻斯特暗中授意警方驱逐乔伊丝，而小警察卢·福特（卡西·阿弗莱克 Casey Affleck 饰）成为了此项工作的具体执行者。卢表面内向顺从，内心却隐藏着不为人知的秘密。短短几周的相处，乔伊丝已然对他深深迷恋，不可自拔。谁知在最后关头，卢却对乔伊丝和艾尔姆痛下杀手，从此跌入万劫不复的黑色深渊中……　　本片根据吉姆·汤普森（Jim Thompson）的同名小说改编。

　　凯丽（蓓尔·保利 Bel Powley 饰）是名声大噪的天才少女，18岁便获得了哈佛大学的毕业证书。虽然每个人都觉得凯丽拥有着前途无量的未来，但对于凯丽来说，每一天她都生活在郁闷和沮丧之中。凯丽的母亲自幼就离开了她，如今，相依为命的父亲派尔必（加布里埃尔·伯恩 Gabriel Byrne 饰）竟然也决定组建新的家庭。　　察觉到了凯丽的彷徨，父亲将名为佩特罗夫（内森·连恩 Nathan Lane 饰）的心理医生介绍给了凯丽，佩特罗夫给了凯丽一份清单，上面罗列着六项任务，佩特罗夫向凯丽保证，只要她完成了这两项任务，就能够重新找回快乐，一切真的如他所说的那么简单吗？

　　一个有婚姻危机的中年男人，某天一个漂亮的年轻女人和她粗鲁的丈夫搬进了他的隔壁，让他的生活发生了翻天覆地的变化......

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