暗夜1986

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

　　暑期返回夏威夷的露西（约翰尼·斯奎娅饰）与父亲亚当（特洛伊·科特苏尔 饰）、妹妹艾琳及宠物黑猩猩本团聚。趁父亲因工作离家，露西与好友凯特（Kate）、汉娜（杰西卡·亚历山大 饰）及凯特的哥哥尼克策划了一场泳池派对。派对期间，本被一只患有狂犬病的动物咬伤，温顺的黑猩猩逐渐变得凶残。众人被迫困在泳池内，且在无法求援的绝境中，必须协作智斗发狂的本以保全性命。