星名美津紀:恋少女

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

好莱坞明星Reef Hawk（基努·里维斯 饰）被人以一个神秘视频进行勒索，形象和职业面临崩塌，他必须深入探索自己心中隐藏的恶魔。在多年好友Kyle（卡梅隆·迪亚兹 饰）、Xander（马特·波莫 饰）和应对危机的律师Ira（乔纳·希尔 饰）的帮助下，Reef展开了一场自我反省的旅程，要去补偿任何他可能辜负过的人，想搞清楚勒索者是谁。面临自己的过去，才能拯救自己的未来。

 故事发生在20世纪80年代的美国，美籍韩裔男子雅各布（史蒂文·元 Steven Yeun 饰）带着妻子莫妮卡（韩艺璃 饰）和两个孩子大卫（Alan S. Kim 饰）、安妮（Noel Cho 饰）一起从熟悉的西海岸搬到了偏僻而又陌生的阿肯色州。虽然对于丈夫的这一决定，莫妮卡的心中十分的反对，但她拗不过雅各布的坚决和顽固，只得被迫夫唱妇随。蛮荒之地的生活既不舒适也不有趣，在最初的新鲜感过去之后，大卫和安妮很快就开始怀念起过去的生活了。之后，孩子们的外婆也来到了他们的身边，给这个家庭带来了一丝热闹的气息。雅各布没有发现的是，当他将越来越多的时间和精力投入到开发农场这件事情上时，他和妻子之间的距离就越来越远。