媽媽的乖孩子

Ay?e, 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

　　瑪拉（裴淳華 Rosamund Pike 飾）經營著一家監護人公司，她專門尋找身體情況欠佳同時又無依無靠的老年人下手，通過并不是那么合法的手段令自己成為他們的法定監護人，將他們送進療養院，之后便可接手和變賣他們的財產和房產，再將所得據為己有。　　某日，瑪拉將下一個“吞噬”的目標放在了一位名叫珍妮弗（黛安娜·維斯特 Dianne Wiest 飾）的老太太身上，經調查，珍妮弗沒有任何的親人，同時又擁有著價值不菲的遺產，簡直就是他們的最佳“肥羊”。在一番操作之后，珍妮弗被沒收手機關進了療養院，但此時的瑪拉和她的戀人兼合伙人弗蘭（艾莎·岡薩雷斯 Eiza González 飾）并不知道的是，她們惹上了一個不該惹，也不能惹的人。

　　因神秘塔羅牌的指引，那群用魔術“替天行盜”的騎士們殺回來了！“初代四騎士”與三位新生代魔術師攜手，目標直指一位鉆石大亨——其家族憑借龐大資本與隱秘勢力，構建了全球性犯罪網絡，也為騎士團布下層層陷阱！面對史上最難的“盜竊任務”，騎士們再現奇跡，上演橫跨全球的魔術大秀，與“血色鉆石家族”展開騙中騙、局中局、計中計的巔峰博弈……

Ay?e, 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