美味人妻2016

　　勞倫茲曾是百老匯作詞家第一把交椅，卻在與理查德拆伙后事業跌落低谷。前搭檔新作的首演之夜，他故作大方獻上祝福，新仇舊恨交織下，終究不歡而散；他轉向忘年好友伊麗莎白尋找慰藉，又不禁懷疑友達以上的關系是否只是自作多情。偌大派對就像如今的百老匯，早已沒他的容身之處。過了今晚，美國音樂劇的黃金年代就要展開，他的盛世卻再也回不來，當最后一曲〈藍月〉響起，即便成了終曲，也要忘情歌頌。

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

 預科學校巴頓學院的老師保羅（保羅·吉亞瑪提 飾）不太受歡迎，不管是學生、老師還是校長，都不太喜歡他，他們覺得他浮夸又僵化。在1970年的圣誕假期，保羅留在了學校監督無法回家的學生。幾天后，只有一個學生留了下來——一個名叫安格斯的15歲搗蛋鬼，他是一個被不良行為破壞的好學生，總是在被開除的邊緣試探。與保羅和安格斯一起留下的還有學校廚師長瑪麗，一個為特權階層的兒子們提供服務的非裔美國婦女，她自己的兒子最近在越南失蹤了。這三個截然不同的失意者組成了一個奇怪的圣誕家庭，在新英格蘭大雪紛飛的兩個星期里，分享著不幸經歷，并意識到他們中沒有人感謝自己的過去。

　　曾經馳騁戰場的退伍老兵安布羅斯·麥金利（Nick Damici 飾）終究也抵擋不了衰老和死亡的侵襲，妻子早年去世，兒子威爾（伊桑·恩布里 Ethan Embry 飾）兀自忙著事業，父子關系雖不冷淡卻也絕非親近，雙目失明的安布羅斯搭乘著兒子的汽車搬入名為克萊森特灣的老年社區，陪伴他的只有一條忠誠的狗狗。搬入當晚，住在隔壁的老婦人被一只餓狼模樣的怪獸襲擊身亡，而安布羅斯則經歷了極其恐怖且終生難忘的夜晚。從醫生口中得知，該社區每個月都會發生一次類似案件，但警方無一例外都將其歸咎為普通的野獸所為。　　得不到親人的救助，更無法奢望父母的庇護，安布羅斯只能融入社區，尋找拯救自己的辦法……