三分之二年 May-December-January (2022)

　　Feature adaptation of the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.

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

　　大卫·斯雷德(《汉尼拔》)将为米高梅执导新片[黑暗收割](Dark Harvest，暂译)。影片根据同名恐怖小说改编，迈克尔·吉里奥([龙与地下城])撰写剧本。故事发生在1963年的万圣节，围绕着一个叫“十月男孩”展开。每年万圣节，他都会手拿屠刀，从玉米地里爬起来，走向小镇。无论是猎人还是猎物，“十月男孩”都是一年一度生死仪式的奖品。皮特知道，杀死“十月男孩”是他逃离这个穷途末路的小镇的唯一机会。他愿意冒着生命危险去赢得胜利。但在夜晚结束之前，皮特将发现“十月男孩”可怕的真正秘密。