破冰

　　As bacteriologist Lena (38) drives past a burning car, she hears a scream of a dying woman. Lena does not tell her boyfriend how much the incident distresses her, just as she does not talk about the stillbirth she recently had. Instead, she throws herself into her work, intrudes into the life of the deceased, begins an affair with the widower and gradually takes on the role of mother to their son. Her persistent insomnia causes her to lose control between dreams and reality. Finally she accepts the help of a whisperer and then finds her own way to cope with her loss

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

　　自從父親死后，薇若妮卡就一直姊代母職照顧弟弟。思念父親的她，和兩個朋友在日全蝕那天，做了碟仙板以召喚她父親的靈體。不料就在日光完全遭到遮蔽同時，玻璃破碎，薇若妮卡陷入恍惚狀態然后昏迷，朋友們也嚇得驚慌失措。薇若妮卡清醒后回家，卻開始發現一些異象：東西自己會移動、看不見的地方傳來正體不明的呼吸聲……她覺得是她把父親帶回了生者的世界，可是這些異象卻越發不懷好意，讓她備感威脅。在弟弟的幫助下，薇若妮卡展開一項儀式要脫離靈體糾纏，卻召喚出始料未及的恐怖幻影，雖然薇若妮卡勇敢地抵抗，但她卻渾然不知可怕的后果正等著她……

　　阿姆布羅瑟（文森特·卡索 Vincent Cassel 飾）是一名非常虔誠的修道士，早就發誓將自己的身體和心里全權交由上帝管理。苛刻而又嚴格的他對教義有著自己獨特的理解，他覺得世人每一日都在玷污上帝的存在。瑪蒂娜非常的崇拜阿姆布羅瑟，她的順從和服從激發了阿姆布羅瑟潛藏在心底的獸欲，欲望一旦被激發，就無法收拾，阿姆布羅瑟一步一步向著深淵走去。　　安東尼婭（約瑟芬·約比 Joséphine Japy 飾）是常常前往修道院為自己的母親禱告的女孩，她的純潔吸引了阿姆布羅斯的注意，后者為了能夠占有她的身體，不惜設計將她的母親殺死。最終，阿姆布羅瑟的種種罪行被一個貴族青年給發現了。