快乐的秘密室

　　亚历斯和莎玛是一对年轻恋人，他们于前往波斯尼亚与赫塞哥维纳中心时车子抛锚在森林里，他们决定向附近的村庄求援。路上，巴尔干战乱的穆斯林幸存者莎玛，开始怀疑有神秘力量追高清在跟着他们，而自信、快乐的年轻欧洲人亚历斯，试图让莎玛甩开这些胡思乱想；但莎玛紧握着她的穆斯林护身符「哈麦利亚」不放，导致神秘力量从森林里逐渐浮现…

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

 1994年，一队野蛮的缉毒警察来到一处仓库，并在其中发现大量邪教信徒和散播的录像：①霍莉和摄影师去下水道探寻神秘生物，却在这遇上此生难忘的恐怖经历。②守灵教堂内，守夜人平静守夜，但风暴来临后会发生什么？③印尼科学家妄图创造人机合一的神话，却不料一队特警早以虎视眈眈 ④一队反社会份子盯上国会大厦打算引爆大厦，却不料他们的计划将会迎来怎样的变数？镜头之外，死亡的魔爪正缓缓伸向小队成员…

 20世纪20 年代，在芝加哥的一场午后录音中，乐队成员们正在等待开拓性的表演者、传奇的“蓝调之母”玛·雷尼（奥斯卡金像奖得主维奥拉·戴维斯饰），其间气氛变得愈发紧张。录音进行到后期时，无畏又脾气火爆的玛和其白人经纪人及制作人就她的音乐控制权展开了一场意志的较量。雄心勃勃的小号手列维（查德维克·博斯曼饰）非常欣赏玛的女朋友，并决心在音乐行业中占有一席之地，当乐队在工作室幽闭的排演室中等待时，他促使乐手们爆出揭露真相的故事，这将永远改变他们的生活。《蓝调天后》根据两次普利策奖得主奥古斯特·威尔逊的戏剧改编而成，歌颂了蓝调的变革力量以及那些拒绝让社会偏见左右自己价值的艺术家。该电影由乔治·乌尔夫执导，鲁本·桑地亚哥-哈德森进行剧本改编，凭借《藩篱》荣获奥斯卡奖提名的丹泽尔·华盛顿和托德·布莱克担任制片人。科尔曼·多明戈、格林·特鲁曼、迈克尔·波茨、泰勒·佩姬、杜山·布朗担任联合主演，艾美奖得主布兰福德·马萨利斯进行配乐。

　　The film follows Ava, a young bank professional who is devastated when her husband Dallas abandons a marriage she is determined to fight for. But then fate intervenes, revealing Dallas’ wicked deeds that have trashed their marriage, and once upon a time sabotaged Ava’s destiny to be loved by her true soulmate.