VN.013 Cheryl青樹

一如往常，護理師露西奔走于各個小兒科病房，BP機、哭喊聲填滿了她的崩潰日常。但今晚，有個小孩讓她格外心力交瘁：四歲的亞當因營養不良入院觀察，他媽媽海蓓卡執意要徹夜守在孩子身旁，偏偏她被法院裁定照顧失當，不得長時間探訪。為了讓拒絕進食的亞當乖乖吃飯，露西打算破例讓她留下，豈料海蓓卡卻想悄悄偷走亞當??

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

　　影片改編自艾拉·萊文的同名小說，講述1968年著名恐怖片《羅斯瑪麗的嬰兒》的前傳故事。　　年輕舞者Terry Gionoffrio（朱莉婭·加納 Julia Garner 飾）遭受了毀滅性傷害，當一對富有的老夫婦承諾給她成名機會后，她發現自己被黑暗力量所吸引。

　　17歲的女孩Gretchen（亨特·莎弗 Hunter Schafer 飾）被迫與家人一起搬到一個度假勝地，而那里并不像看上去的那樣平靜。